 | 1897
...separated by intervals relatively dark. The riddle of the nebulae was solved. The answer, which had come to us in the light itself, read: Not an aggregation of stars, but a luminous gas. Stars after the order of our own sun, and of the brighter stars, would give a different spectrum; the... | |
 | 1900 - 536 pages
...separated by intervals relatively dark. The riddle of the nebulae was solved. The answer, which had come to us in the light itself, read: Not an aggregation of stars, but a luminous gas. Stars after the order of our own sun, and of the brighter stars, would give a different spectrum; the... | |
 | George Iles - 1900 - 398 pages
...William Htiggins. This is what he saw : The riddle of the nebulie was solved. The answer, which had come to us in the light itself, read, Not an aggregation of stars, PLATK XVIII. THE NKHULA IN ORION. From the drawing by Professor GP Bond, 1859-^3. Pi ••* Xi.< 1... | |
 | 1902 - 191 pages
...William Huggins. This is what he saw: "The riddle of the nebulae was solved. The answer, which kad come to us in the light itself, read, Not an aggregation of stars, but a luminous gas. Stars after the order of our own sun, and of the brighter stars, would give a different spectrum, the... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1903
...separated by intervals relatively dark. The riddle of the ncbulat was solved. The answer, which had come to us in the light itself, read: Not an aggregation...luminous gas." With this advance a new era of progress begat). The power of the spectroscope to distinguish between a glowing gas and a mass of partially... | |
 | William Marshall Watts - 1904 - 325 pages
...sepa rated by intervals relatively dark. " The riddle of the nebulae was solved. The answer, which had come to us in the light itself, read : Not an aggregation of stars, but a luminous gas. Stars after the order of our own sun, and of the brighter stars, would give a different spectrum ;... | |
 | George Ellery Hale - 1908 - 252 pages
...separated by intervals relatively dark. The riddle of the nebulae was solved. The answer, which had come to us in the light itself, read: Not an aggregation...spectroscope to distinguish between a glowing gas and a starlike mass of partially condensed vapors established it at once in the place it still holds as the... | |
 | Richard Cockburn Maclaurin - 1909 - 251 pages
...separated by intervals relatively dark. The riddle of the nebulae was solved. The answer which had come to us in the light itself read : Not an aggregation of stars, but a luminous gas." Thus the spectroscope tells us something of the physical condition of a substance. It shows whether... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1911
...separated by intervals relatively dark. The riddle of nebul.-E was solved. The anVwer, which had conie to us in the light itself, read : Not an aggregation of stars, but a luminous gas. Stars after the order of our own sun. and of the brighter stars, would give a different spectrum ;... | |
 | John Codman Soley - 1924 - 247 pages
...the riddle and proved that the unformed nebulas might furnish the material from which stars are made. The power of the spectroscope to distinguish between a glowing gas and a starlike mass of partially condensed vapors established it as the chief instrument of the student of... | |
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The riddle of the nebulae was solved. The answer, which had come to us in the light itself, read: Not an aggregation of stars, but a luminous gas. 
