Show Sun un Spots Are Huge Cannon Bombarding Earth With S Stream re m of Electricity f Dv By DA DAVID DIETZ N NEA A Service Writer Writer T MT WILSON Calif March The H-The 24 The mystery of the th sun spots those peculiar dark darl spots which appear an and d disappear disappear sup pear upon the suns sun's surface ill ut regular cycles is approaching n a solution at the famous lilt l Wilson observatory atory here bere The work worL carried on so far shows THAT sun-spots sun are huge buge magnets nets on the suns sun's surface THAT they arc are huge buge can can- cannon cannon non bombarding the earth with streams of electrons or 01 particles of negative electric electric- electricity electricity ity That they are arc huge whirl whirl- whirlpools whirlpools whirlpools pools in ill time the surface of the sun creating great t whirling vor- vor vor VOl vortexes texes or tornados in the at- at at atmosphere re of the sun A dally daIly study of ot Is being made with the two tower telescopes atop Mt lIt Wilson Every da day a photograph ot or the sun Is made Then another photo graph Is la made mado with the heliograph which shows the th actual surface Burrace of the sun In lit addition ape ape- special cial photographs are mide ot or the suns sun's spots IC EFFECT The study of the magnetic effet In sun spots Is being belne carried on un- un under Under un under der the direction ot or Dr George L E Hale honorary director of or the Mt It Wilson Dr Charles II E 1 St John lohn another famous world famous astronomer Is car carP carrying on the study of If the time atmO- atmO atmOspheric atmo atmospheric effects effect caused 1 by the tIme sull sunspots spots Sun spots appear In cycles cycle of 11 years ear As A the period of or minimum sun aun un spots is passed new spots be be- be begin Cin be-Cin gin to appear In a 0 zone zon to each BIde aide of or the suns sun's equator Then as a the number of spots In- In Increase Increases In Increase crease creases they appear closer and closer to the tho equator No explanation for tor this fact tact hAS been heen brought foucht to light yet The Th Spots however are known to tobe tobe tobe be great t whirlpools In the th surface or of the time sun alln un Some of ot them are as much as miles In diameter USI CUSE OP OP- WHIRLING It lt Is I believed now that the whirling motion of ot the sun spot Is I 1 4 ac 4 4 C w a itt t I I j m i k kj j 4 liI Above e I It sho n time the foot ISO hI ope at Mt It WIlSon on As- As ou revelatIons rc concerning time the nature Datum or of the tue sun SUR lime hac ken been as a 1 lIlt of tim tho tlc c studies duo to material Inside fhe e sun nib lIb lIb- bling up through the time surface Dr St John told me v Much ot of o the material Is In an Ionized or electrified state This Is believed to be the tho explanation of the magnetic effect of or tho sun sunspots sunspots spots Dr Hale made the fry dIscovery that tho the sun lun spot Slots were like th lh poles or huge hure magnets The spots usually appear In groups one with a 0 magnetic field like the north pole polo of a magnet be- be beIng being be Ing followed 1 by a spot with the action of or a south Bouth magnetic field My work on the atmosphere ot of the sun shows that near the tIme surface of the sun the th gases case are flowIng out of the sun un spots spot with a great whirling motion while high above e the spot tIme tile gazes eases are being sucked down into the th spot |