CONTACT WITH THE SUN.

Grey River Argus, 31 January 1946, Page 4

CONTACT WITH THE SUN.

Americans First (Rec. 7.5) NEW YORK, Jan. 30. The Australian feat of recording noise waves from the Sun (cabled last night), was performed in New York in 1943 by engineers of the Bell Telephone Coy. Laboratories. Colonel J. H. De Witt, who supervised the army scientists in making the recent radar contact with the moon, termed the Australian news “pretty old.” He said: “We have been able to trace the sun with radar for some time. The sun has such a high temperature that. it. radiates thermal noises which we can pick up at certain wave lengths.” The Bell Coy. engineers ”~*' l double detection super-hetrodyne receiver, which was modified to operate on extremely short wave lengths and they measured hissing noises emanating from the sun. Scientists said that rays from the moon and from Veta, one the brightest stars, were broadcast in 1934 from Bratislava and Prague to Britain. The rays made sounds similar to those of the tolling of large bells.