The Pith of Astronomy Without Mathematics the Latest Facts And Figures As Dev

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The Pith of Astronomy Without Mathematics the Latest Facts And Figures As Dev
Samuel G Samuel Gamble Bayne
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The student of stars will in a short time begin to see that they have indi- vidual colors. Many of these are clear- ly marked, and the observer will at once notice their various tints. It is believed they take their colors from their chem- ical composition in a state of incandes- cence.
THE FIXED STARS 85 Aldebaran and Antares are red ; Be- telguese is orange ; Sirius, Vega, and Altair are bluish white; Arcturus, Capella, and Pollux are yellow; while others have tints of the r'uby> the emer- al
...d, the topaz, and the sapphire.
There are many variable stars that is, stars which grow bright and then fade in a fixed period. Of this class Mira and Algol are the most remark- able. Mira attains the size of a sec- ond-magnitude star and remains in that condition 15 days; then it grad- ually fades and remains invisible for 5 months; afterwards it reappears and increases slowly, to again become brill- iant; the entire transformation occu- pies 331 days. Mira is sometimes called " the wonderful. " One of the accepted explanations of these changes is that it alternately 86 THE PITH OF ASTRONOMY burns fiercely and smoulders within the time of its period.


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