The Sauk Centre herald., 1914-01-08
MAGIC OF COLORs
BY Il We Know of What the Sun
and Stars Are Composed.
SECRETS OF THE UNIVERSE.


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anoo throncb vel,ow green hlue and
,ndiro decrease IN length and are
moro and more turned aside as they
oct shorter The consequences Ia that
you see through your nearly closed
eyelashes a hand of colors, which is
nothing hut the famous spectrum Of
the astronomers"
Bv the discovery of that spectrum
and the reasoning that 1t led to we
have found out what the sun and the
stars are made of, Every known eIe-
ment of matter. when it is made to
shine, gives out wave lengths peculiar
to itself. Spectroscopic instruments
more perfect than the eyelashes reveal
these special waves In the light Of the
sun and the stars and by that revela-
ton enable US to detect the incandes-
cent clouds. composed of the hot va
pors of iron. copper. nickel. platinum.
carbon. calcium. sodium and many
other substances which glow in the
atmosphere of the heavenly bodies
We find these things In stars SO far
away that their light may require
1000 years to come to us, although 1t
flies with q speed Of $500 miles per
second.
Look around you when you enter q
brilliantly lighted parlor with crystal
chandeliers hanging from the ceiling.
The mysterious spectrum flashes at
vou from hundred directions at once.
The glass CRYSTALS of the chandeliers
are also spectroscopes. and they, too.
separate the various colored waves.
though on q somewhat different prin-
ciple. They act not as diffraction graf
ines. but as prisms, but the effect is
nearly the same. When light goes
through q prism the red waves are less
bent out Of their course than the or
ange the orange less than the yellow,
the yellow less than the green, the
green less than the blue, the blue less
than the indigo and the indigo less
than the violet, The result is that
what was white light. with all Its
waves intermingled, when 1t entered
tho nriam. comes ont In beautiful
.hoavas of co,or
sir,l.r osract "a nroducad bv fhe
hovsIed a1oo of q mirror or the facets
of niece of cut glass s,ittering on a
dinner fable
Tbo haoutv of ;eva,s dene,Ss mo,
+ho;r snactroscon,c mowers Every
transnaront substance has tts own sin.
dax of refraction.n which means its
nocu,tor nouar of turninp light waves
aside The diamond. as the king Of