CURIOUS SUN PHENOMENA.
Astronomers who watcli for sun .-spots sometimes see queer sights. One such sight has become classical, although astronomers do not seem yet to have arrived at- an explanation of it. On Ist September, 1859, Mr Carrington and Mr Hodgson —the one at Greenwich and the other many miles distant, and both watcning sun spots —simultaneously saw two luminous objects, shaped something like two new moons, each about 8000 miles in length and 2000 wide, at a distance of some 12,000^ miles apart. These, according to an expert description, burst suddenly into sight at the edge of a great sun spot with a dazzling brightness, and then disappearing after travelling a distance of some 36,000 miles!
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXII, Issue 16, 19 January 1901, Page 2 (Supplement)
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118CURIOUS SUN PHENOMENA. Auckland Star, Volume XXXII, Issue 16, 19 January 1901, Page 2 (Supplement)
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