Show STARLIGHT HEAT SPECTRUM RUrA of smithsonian lt explains explain how it may be B determined OetT mined py by measuring a hundred millionth degree decree of temperature and a trillionth of un ampere of electric current dr C G abbot of the smithsonian institution has baa determined for the first brat time tile beat spectrum of starlight cht as 29 h announced la in an address at the car degre institution of Washing tolL working with alth the inch telescope at mount wilson observatory this full doctor abbot measured the heat at different parts parta of the spectrum of ten stars and the sun the rai ra a were dispersed by a spectroscope in a band similar to the rainbow ral libow tb bright star capella Cu pella which Is very tery similar to our own owl sun un la in ito ita spectrum wits w found to furnish the tb equivalent of one horsepower to an area ou on the earth approximately equal to the state of minnesota but this prominent star Is feeble compared with our sun which Is equal to a hundred billion and sends bends down on twenty square feet heat equal to a horsepower on the whole earth capellas heat beat equals horsepower and as 89 all the stars star together equal TOO rm Cap capellas eliss title tills would amount to one quarter million horsepower over the ile whole earth from the stars alone |