The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1906-05-11
SUN SPO OTIS.
Their lnaunce on The Weather
I. Other Natural Pheno.
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Scientific Treaties on interesting
Subject BY Ne. A. g.
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When We encounter an abnormal
condition In the weather for two or
three years in succession we are apt
to seek for the cause OF such abnor-
NAL display and these causes are
readily traoeable to the photor.
phere that surrounds the sun and
the habitudes of the sun himself .
polar wave Of arctic cold torrid
wave Of equatorial heat or q phe,
nominal display: OF meteorological
condition causing an excess Of heat
or cold or moisture upon the earth
all find their solution in the sun
and primarily in the spots that mar
the surface OF the sun which detract
from his wonted energy. It il only
about 800 years since astronomers
began observing the spots on the
suns surface and the moro minute
has been the investigation of these
blemishes ON our orb of day the
more they have been confirmed in
their conjectures that the radiation
Of light and heat from the sun have
been materially intafered with and
to-day there is a complete agree
ment among scientists, that spots
NOW visible upon the sums surface
are responsible for the phenomenal
changes We are now experiencing ID
tho weather and these spots have :
period Of about II years in duration
occupying nearly the same zone
during the priod Of their activity
first beginning with small spots and
increasing from year to year until
between the fifth and sixth years
when they attain to- their greatest
magnitude and 4 consequently to
their most malign influence upon
meteorological conditions upon the
earth. "A chasm Of so, 900 miles in
diameter upon the suns face di-
minishes by one eleventh part the
sums energy then il from any cause
one eleventh part Of the heat Of the,
sun IS absorbed such absobtion must
have . diminishing effect upon: tie
thurmal conditions upon the earth e
surface, and of this we have had
ample proof during the past two or
three years. but the most interest.
ing !. feature of these .blemishes
on the sun q face is that they are
promonitory Of the deoadence and
death Of the sun and the causes that
will eventually put an end to it's
career as a giver of light and heat.
may be found in the fact that a re-
sem blance has been detected be-
tween some of the spectroscopic phe-
nomena observers in the sun spots.
and those which are characteristic
Of stars kboWnS to be in almost the
last stage Of solar decay, SO the as
ronomer may study these significant
things on the sun som swhat as the
physician studies the first mark of
an incurable disease in a patients
system, And now in attempting a
solution Of the problem Of solar ev-
olution other SIMS must also be
studied for astronomers say that
comparative astronomy is just as le-
.gitimate as comparative anatomy,
hence it spectroscopic analysis !
reveal to us certain conditions in sun
spots and these same condition are
found in stars that are now nearly
extinct, and If in the several worlds
like causes produce like effects then
it will be as susceptible of proof
as any mathematical theoram, that
were compelled to abandon their
Instruments, while, in Norway tele-
graphic Offices were set on fire and
telegraphic instruments destroyed.
In addition 70 the foregoing
there are eclipse Of the sun that
effect the weather but the greatest
disaster that can betall this earth,
one that will amount to a catclysm
will result from the procession Of
the equinoxes and accumulation Of
matter at the earths equator in SO
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