The Sun.
London, England, 1870-01-21 00:00:00

ST ATE OF THE SUN.

Professor J. D. Steele has sent to the Elmira
(New York) Advertiser the following cormilueica-
tion for quieting needless fears
There appeared in the Llmira Advertiser some
weeks since a paragraph, copied; I believe, from a
Michigan paper, declaring that a column of mage
netic light is shooting out from the sun at a pro-
digious speed—that it already reaches halfway to
the earth, and that, in all probability, by another
summer we shall have a celestial and atmospheric
phenomena beside which our rudest winter winds
will seem like a ' June morning in ParacEse.' In
fine, that when this big tongue of fire touches the
earth it will likely lap up our globe at one mouthful.
Very many have made inquiries of me concerning
this prodigy, and with your leave, I will try to
satisfy their curiosity, and perhaps allay their
fears. It has been known for some time that
!luring a total eclipse red flames were seen to
play about the edge of the moon. During the
eclipses of 1868 and 1869 it was definitely sealed
that they are entirely d scounected from the moon,
and were vast tongues of lire darting out from the
sun's disc. By observations with the spectroscope,
and also.hy means of the wonderful photogrephs
of the sun taken by De la Rue during the eclipse of
1860, it was discovered that these fire. tnouirains
consisted mainly of burning hydrogen gas. This
'vas precious information to secure in the midst of
he excitement and novelty, and in the brief diva-
iion of a total eclipse. It did not, ho,ev,,r, satisfy
Scientific men. For two years Mr. Lockyer, aided
by it grant from Parliament to construct a superior
itistrument, had been experimenting and searching
In order to detect these flames at other times than
at the rare occurrence of a total eclipse. On the
20th Oct., 1868, he obtained a distinct image of one
of the prominences, which he afterwards trace.i en-
tirely round the sun. Astronomers can, therefore,
!tow study th,--se flames at any tone. 'fee re-
tilts of observations now being taken show that
stories rage upon the, sun with a violence of which
we can form no conception. Hurricanes sweep
over its surtace with terrific violence. Vss&
cyclones wrap its fires into whirlpools, at I-1X
eottom of which our earth eculd lie iike a bottler
in a volcano. Huge flames dart out to enormous
distances, and fly over the sun with a speed
greater than that of the earth itself through space.
At one time a cone of fire shot out 80,000 miles,
and then died away all in ten minutes' time.
Besides such awful convulsions, the mimic diselaY
of a terrestrial volcano or earthquake sinks into
insignificance. There is nothing in these pheno-
mena to alarm us. They have, in all probability,
happened Constantly for ages past. That we have
now means of investigating their nature and mea-
suring their height and velocity furnishes no cause
of anxiety. Rumours of these discoveries have
crept into the .papers, and, exaggerated by repeated
copying and sensational additions, have given
rise to these mysterious and uncalled-for predic-
tions."

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