Salt Lake Democrat | 1885-10-07 | Page 4 | A Blue Outlook

A Blae Outlook. Professor Langley, who knoM'S more about the sun than most people know about the earth.says that the sun is really blue: that it is the atmosphere of the earth M'hich tempers its heat and color into white light, and that the blue skv is the re al light of the sun, unaffected" by the earth's atmosphere. He has learned this by that wonderful instrument, the spectroscope. He says our misconceptions misconcep-tions of the white light of the sun is the same mistake the fish at the bottom - of the ocean M'ould make in imagining that the sun's light is a pale green. We live at the bottom of the sea of air and by looking up through it get a M'rong notion of the true color of the sun. Then by the I same token the moon .and ntara mnat I blue also. This is a pretty blue outlook for mankind.