Stories by Henry Norris Russell

The Large New Observatory in Western Texas Was Made Possible by an Amateur, An Admirable Site, An Efficient Housing and a High-grade Telescope

According to Bethe's Theory, the Most Notable Achievement of Theoretical Astrophysics of the Last Fifteen Years, It is Atomic Transfortations

For the Source of Stellar Energy We Must Look To Reactions Between Charged Atomic Nuclei, Discussions and Background for Bethe's Theory

Why do the Stars Shine, How do re Know They Are So Exceedingly Hot inside, and What Makes them So ? From Whence Coles their Vast Store of Energy?...

Recent Research Proves That This Nearby Cluster of Stars Is No Mere Accidental Conglomeration of Unrelated Bodies but Is an Interrelated System

Among Themselves Astronomers Specialize On a Wide Variety of Problems, and Then Meet Twice Yearly to Tell Each Other About Their Researches

Recent Research Indicates that a Large Part of the Illumination We Commonly Designate as Starlight Originates in the Earth's Upper Atmosphere

A New Apparatus Used with the Spectroscope Cuts Star-Images into Sections, Rearranges these End to End, and Multiplies the Efficiency Very Greatly

There is Evidence that Matter Within SOle of the Greater Planets Exists in Forms and Conditions that Would Seem Bizarre to Dwellers on Our Earth

At Their Triennial Meeting the World's Astronomers Witnessed the Amazing New Technique of Observing Solar Prominences and Corona Without an Eclipse

Recent Research on the Binary Star at the Lip of the Great Dipper Reveals the Orbits of Its Components and Rounds Out Our Understanding of It

It Has No Single Temperature hut the Layer that Sends Us its Light Directly Averages About 5740 Degrees, Absolute, or 9873 Degrees, Fahrenheit

The New Struve Wide-Slit Spectrograph Permits the Observation of the Faint Galactic Nebulae

Results of the Recent Successful Search for Faint Exceptionally Red and Infra-red Dwarf Stars, How The Temperatures of Such Stars are Ascertained

The Best Fish are Not Always Caught by the Best Equipped Fishermen, The Little Fellow With a Small Telescope Makes Finds of Unusual Interest

The Monumental New General Catalog of Stars for the Professional Astronomer, in Preparation More than 30 Years, is Finished, An Enormous Task....

The Much-Talked-of Huge Star in Auriga Yields to Astrophysical Interpretation: an Eclipsing Binary With an Almost Grazing Type of Eclipse

A Résumé of Some of the Researches Described at the Most Recent Semi-Annual Meeting of the 400 Astronomers of the North American Continent

When Stars Pulsate in Brightness, What Really Happens and Why? Such Changes Take Place on an Enormous Scale, A Star's Diameter May Rise and Fall by as Much as 40,000,000 Miles and at a Rate of 25 Miles a Second, New Data Increase Our Knowledge but We Still Have Much to Learn

New Research Based on Planetary Nebulae Provides the Most Striking Evidence and the Best Picture of Galactic Rotation Thus Far Made Available

How the Sun and the Stars, Due to the Pressure of Their Light, Ultimately Clean Up the Smaller Particles in Their Own Immediate Neighborhoods

Just as Mars, when Seen from the Earth, is Called the "Ruddy" Planet, so the Earth from Mars or Other Planets Would be Called the Azure Object

Mars' Current Apparition Reveals to Astronomers a Remarkable Phenomenon, Unprecedented Clearing in the Planet's Atmosphere, Signifying What?