Morning journal and courier., 1886-03-09
Sun Explosions.

Richard A. Proctor in Longman's Magazine
 Among the remarkable discoveries made by means of the spectroscope one of the most striking has been the recognition of tremen- dous solar disturbances of an eruptive or rather of an explosive nature. In 1872 Prof. Young, of Princeton N. J., observed 8 solar eruption, in which what looked like fila msnts of glowing hydrogen (averaging thousand miles in lengthD seemed to travel upward from the suns surface at the rate of about 145 miles per second, till they had reached height of not less than 210, 1000 miles. Even then they did not cease to ascend, but, losing their lustre, faded out of view. If shreds of hydrogen were really shot out on that occasion we should scarcely find in the event anything bearing on the matter before us-the possible eJectlon of meteoric matter. But no one who considers the phenomenon with attention, or studies the evidence obtained in regard to it, can for & moment imagine that what look like ejec- tions of glowing hydrogen can be really of that nature It is obvious alike from 8 priori considerations and a posterierl evil dence that the jet-like streams of hydrogen are in reality the tracks of ejected matter, solid or liquid. For, not only is it impossi- ble that streams of such substance as hy-
 drogen should be ejected to heights of many thousands of miles through an atmosphere of Y, but the shapes assumed by the hydrogen streaks are inconsistent with the idea that they can have been themselves elected For instance, the shreds of hydrogen observed by Prof Young (some of which were thousands of miles long) were irregular in shape. Had they really been travelling through Q resist ing atmosphere at the enormous rate of 145 miles per second, they would certainly have been pear-shaped, rounded in front and tailed behind, like fire balls in our own air. But they resembled, rather, the irregular streaks showing where our air has been rem dered luminous by the passage of meteoric masses through it. Prof. Young's observa- tion proved, in fact, that on that particular occasion the sun had shot out from his in- terior flight of many thousands of bodies. The bodies themselves would not be visible, because the phenomenon was observed through atele-spectroscope, admitting only red light of the same tint as the red of glow ing hydrogen. But the light from the heated hydrogen along the tracks of these ejected
 missiles would be clearly visb ble. The streaks would, of course, seem to ascend. For they would always be close up to the missiles producing them, so that their for ward ends would advance, while their rear ends would seem also to advance as the light gradually faded out along those parts of the track which were furthest from the ad- vancing missile. What Prof. Young saw has been seen since at various observatories. The sun, then has the power of ejecting matter from his interior-presumably in volcanic explosions. Moreover, calculation which made respecting Prof. Youngs explosion shows that the matter ejected on that occasion passed away from the sun with such velocity that it would never return to him. Those missiles were thenceforth akin to meteoric bodies travelling freely through space.
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