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Captain of Our Universe
liove
PERHAPS YOU
readlined How
important the sup is to us. Without # there could be no dife, for gilamie moed sun- light to dive and without plants there could the jag animale.
The sun, the Captain of our Universe, is $3,000,000 miles from the earth and is about 263,000 miles in diameter or 100 times the diameter of the parth. So it wins ap size pilone as the biggest thing in our little system. And in other ways as well.
The sun turns on its axis, just as the earth does, and in the sume direction. But the sult, being in a gas and liquid state because it is so bol, turns gester at the equator than it depen Its poles. At the equator the "day, or period for sevolving is about 25 of our days, whille at about 60 degraps from the equator It requires 185 Any 19 turn on its axis.
Sunspots are a feature of the sun. that scientists are studying intensely. At pay be that the unequal ente of the sure turning on dis ads causes the, ar it may be some other reason, We do know that sun- Spots are disturbances in the sum's atmosphere,
The brilliant gline of the mun that gives off light is called the "photosphere"
,or light sphere. Over the photosphere is shej? of hydrogen gas and calcium vapour seen only during a total
15 Lclipse. This called the colour "chiomosphere", or sphere, because it is a brilliant
red,
FROM
*
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•
the chromosphere explosions of hydrogen →→ literally giant H-bomb blasts- have sent material shooting up to 100,000 miles or more above the surface.
Stretching for beyond the chromosphere is the mysterious light that crowns the sun during, a total eclipse. This is the
Its corona. changing of shape and light during the appearance And disappearance of sunspots another point that scientists are studying, When we know more about this, we will know more about what is taking place on the sun.
The temperature of the photo. sphere is about 12,000 degrees Fahrenheit.
By PAUL VANDER EIKE
WITHOUT THE FUN, LIFE COULD HOT EXIST ON THIS EARTH- AGTRANDWERS ARE EVEN
STUDIOUS NOW WE ARE ERSTED BY THE GROTE
GIN THE FU
SCIENTISTS HAVE CALCULATED THE SUN TO BE 93,000,000 MILES FROM THE EARTH, AND A SPACE SHIP THAT COULD REACH THE MOON IN ID HOURS WOULD TAKE 155 DAYS TO REACH THE GUN.
MT, WILSON, PALOMAR OBSERVATORY PHOTO OF THE SUN, SHOWING THE LARGEST GROUP OF SUNGPOTS EVER PHOTOGRAPED-
day, are stripped of their piec- irons by the enormous pressure and operature. The electrons Ate a part of the stem, tatas tho protons: Timtrong and nucleus.
cross-pections
of the
vortex Avell down into
from the top, the solar surface.
3
that the
CROSSWORD
Across
1 Transportation fes
5 Solicitude
0 Greek god of war
10 Tumult
11 Little demons
12 Too
13 Grain
14 Note in Guido's scale
15 Half on em
16
Tardler
19 Birthplace (ab.)
21 Musical note
22 Electrified particle
25 Stratagem
27 Pedestal part
28 Eject
29 Type of bomb
30 Challenge
31 Female horse
Down
1 Agricultural show
2 Troops
3 Drive of
4.8-shaped worm
5 Cage
6 Be sick
7 Flower
* English school
14 Shoshonean Indian
(Solution on Fogo 10)
FISH AND FOWL
Millions of years ago whales lived on land and walked around on four legs.
The
white whale is able to sitter a curious grunting sound while under water.
Ho found that north of the sun's equator the spots whirled In one direction, while south of The equator they whirled in the The first person to study sun. spots was Galileo, who invented opposite, just as the whirlpools the telescope in 1810., He also and tornadoes do on the earth. observed for the first time that It was also discovered that the and the sun turned on its axis in spots generated electricity
gigantic magnetic about 28 days (average time), produced
million times more He may have noticed, too, that Belds,
felds the numbers of spots were not powerful than magnetle the same alw
always.
Some years of the earth. there were many, in other years
Years
It was also discovered Yew.
later
emit Samuel
Some species of fish that sunspots the magnetic polarity of
rounds. This "speech" is due to Schwabe found come and go-in-cycles averaging...spets changed as they went an air sus comparable to the
from one
cycle into another. 11.2' years.
the windpipe at e. Jungs and Thus, the polarity was posthuman being. Some lish have" Sunspots appear to be huge live at the beginning of the wall developed hearing orgáns, cavities in the sun's surface, 11.2 year cycle, it changed to
Isinglass is made from the some large enough to contain negative when
a new cycle swim bladder of a sturgeon or began
for that spot. So the cod. cycle would be 23
Instead years
Catalina is the name of a group of flying-fishes, Still there is much to be
of Amerlea some parts learned
about sunspots and
they are called minnows, but in what causes them. The magnetke Europe this fresh water fish is Geld of sunspots possibly has n
gudgeon... much to do with the throwing
100,000 miles of approximately half
half as long.
cover
larger, Oc the earth, some casionally a large spot or group may stretch length, even more, and billions of square miles, Sun- spots travel from east to west, carried by the sun's rotation,
•
In
Д
The male ostrich utiers out of electrons which speed to hoarse mournful cry which tus the earth from the sun. These, been likened to the roaring of a entering the earth's atmosphere, lion.
t
aurora
northern
sunspots OIL 300 years the
were observed and no one
the aurora borealla It is not the parróf which has knew much about them may cause
and
the the most human voice, but the Bustralia, Then In 1008 Dr
Eastern Georga
mynah from and southern lights, crested Wi- of Mt. Ellery Hale
the and interfere with radio com- Asia,
H. Allotson observatory invented
Instrumunication. An There are 96 chemical ele, spectroheliograph, ments. Some of these have ment that enabled him to study not boen
by discovered the sun's atmosphere. He saw examination nt spectroscopic the
But
of most
the famillar elements are
there. such as hydrogen, calcium, zadium,
magnesium and iron Helium, a gas, was known' the sun before it was discovered the earth, and it got name from Hellos, a Greek god p the sun.
sun.
On
it
In the sun, the atoms, which are so important in news now.
large quantities of hydrogen gas and calcium vapour drawn into the vicinity of the spots and it was realised that sunspots were giunt whirlpools in the
sun's similar
' Limosphere,
to boolea! hurricanes which orig- inate in the West Indies and
The Old Wagon Wheel Is Happy
-For One Night It's Back Where It Used to Be-·
By MAX TRELL
AFTER everyone in the house 2sleep, Christopher
fast
veep northward with destrue-was live force. Hale, using his apCricket came out of the little paratus, photographed sunspots space between the two bricks in al different depths and obtained the fireplace where he
ZOO'S WHO
MOUNTAIN
GOAT PARENTS FUSH THEIR YOUNGSTERS LOVER CUFFS
IN ORDER TO TEACH
THEM THE
ART OF
MAKING SAFE
LANDINOS...
1.6. HAS AN AVERAGE OF SE
29th Mar. -20th Apr. 26th Apr.
TWO RATS FOR EVERY HUMANG.
Leadlug on or abt
· 23rd Feb,
28th Feb.
23rd Mar.
1st Apr.
2nd Apr.
20th Apr.
Via Singapore and Port Swettentiam,
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130 DAYSH
IN 1906 EDWARD PAYSON EVANS WROTE A BOOK THE CRIM INAL PROSECUTION AND CAPITAL PUNISHMENT OF ANIMALS!
ACCORDING TO THE COLUMBIA ENCYCLOPED‘A...
Rupert and the Pine Ogre-4
-The shrga Gui
W. R. LOXLEY
CP., (CHINA) LTD. Agent
Buildin
B4165
was
spending the winter, and sat down next to Knarf and Hanid, the shadow-children with the turned-about names.
've got a very strange story to tell you
If you'd like to hear
it," he said.
Knart and Hanid both nodded early Christopher drew his Mega under him, and after re-
for maining thoughtful
moment or two, finally began.
Hain't Moved
"Now you remember that old waron-wheel that Father keeps
in the barn? It's an old, old The barn door opened and out:
wheel and it's the only thing
lot of the wagon it once belong-
rolled the wheel,.
"I followed the boy-wagon
ed to. It hasn't moved from the down the road until at last it spot where it's been standing went through a stone gate into a for years and years and year-
At least, no one has ever esen it field where the fresh-cut hay move. No one," added Chris- as lying and drying. Then the hay-wagon stopped and everyone topher Cricket in a mysterious jumped off. Soon they were all
"but I." Vouw it move, Christo merilly pitching the city hay an the wagon. Higher and higher, pher!" Knart excialmed.
shout
"I did indeed," he continued, and still higher grew the load of
ald the farmer it was enough, "It happened late last night, hay. And then with The house was dark. But out- and time to
gide a full,
way shining 1
clean Just slipped
bright
out
under
the door and was
"And
then
aid Christopher,
boys and girls climbed to the highest top of the load of walking slowly across the car hay. The farmer and the hired den
svhen": I heard an unusual man got into the sexts, and nolee. The next second I say slowly the hay-wagon turned what was making the noise. A through the clone gates onco huge hay-wagon with nothing more and moved up the road,
.....I Was rumbling down the road.
on
t
ment, with no bay
Two Ercat brown horses
the
prisp
I
Sang and Laughed "How the boys and girls sang
two
were pulling the hoy-wagon, and laughed How the and an old farmer was driving Ercat brown horses tugged! How the horses. On the hay-wagon the wheels crunched and creak- ed! How the lord of hay stood the farmer's hired man, haunted and jounced as the and d-five or six boys and girl, wagon bumped over the ruts in all with pitchforks. To my
the road! great
Ame that one of Tooked like Mother "But the wheel. that came. when she was younger, and one from the barn seemed to laugh of the boys looked like Father, and sing more heartily than All the boys and girls shouted anyone else until, at last, just as and laughed as the wagon rupe the hay-wagon reached the parn ll at once the hay-wagon and bled along.
Opp Wheal Missing everyone on faded away and allithat was left was the one "And then suddenly sold ingle wheel. For a moment it Christopher noticed that one epa there, multe alone, and of the trout wheels of the bay then sadly it rollet back into the wagon avas missing.itvaart but where it has always stood, there. And then just as the and the barn door slowly closed. wagon-paced the bars, the barn yes, I saw with my own door opened and gut rolled the eyes, but perhaps it was only wheth in an instant it had sty
Cream...or
ucheol an ihe end of the all did haploose it really
und summer,
axle, though how that hoppans long long a when Mother and 4 can imprine), boda šie vaures were a url and a boy. wases-rolled and to one sreme and the wheel belonged to a
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