Show Z AAMES FLAMES LEAP HIGH j IN MOVIES OF SUN scientists spy on old sol from bottom of well chicago giving a truly colossal performance the sun made its debut as a movie star in a film viewed by the nations most eminent scientists the premiere with old sol exhibited in spectacular form was at a session of the national academy of sciences at the university of chicago the pictures which show great jets of flame on the sun shooting to heights of a hundred thousand miles banded by rainbows more than miles in length were made by dr robert R and dr edison pettit of the university of michigan the michigan scientists shot the film from the new solar tower of the hulburt observatory at lake angelus near pontiac sixth of its kind in the world the tower is fifty feet high and rises above a concrete well thirty five feet deep importance of the suns pyrotechnical display to the several hundred men of science lay in its revelation for the first time of the actual motion of the flames which compose the solar kings cloak like roman candles As the sun appeared in the film the flames were from to miles in length composed mainly of incandescent inca descent calcium and hydrogen all along the tremendous jets were smaller discharges like roman candles candies which spurted to a length of 1000 miles the film also revealed new cloudlike substances descending like curtains in the solar atmosphere the rainbows depicted appeared like huge beaded strings dr said this cloud development is a new discovery and may render revision of some theories of the solar prom necessary the photographs show the sur face of the sun to be dotted by low sharp pointed flames darting up for a thousand miles or so and then subsiding sometimes a large area of fire seeming to cover an extent of miles is blown to one side we have seen phenomena that resemble a spreading fire in a field of wheat movie photography of the sun was made possible by development of a which eliminates the brilliant light that would otherwise blot out the picture boiling and turbulent instead of the quietly glowing hall ball of fire that it seems to be when observed through a sm smoked aked glass the heavenly body that diffuses life div ing heat and rays to the earth is really a constantly boiling turbulent mass the photographs revealed on the screen dr pointed out sudden volcanoes of fire and gasses estimated to attain the terrific heat of d degrees agrees fahrenheit rising at intervals from the sun because they seemed to twist and turn like whirling dervishes dr referred to some of the great spurts of fire as tornadoes before falling back again to become part of the sun some of the tongues of fire formed an arch 50 miles in width which would be capable of wiping out every living thing on the earth however there is no possibility of their ever traversing the intervening miles said dr |