| Show 11 j What Is 18 IsBY It J I BY BT GARR GARRETT P. P SERVISS T THE THE HE keenest observer among living astronomers E B E. E E. E Barn Barnard rd calls calIs attention to a most singular singular sin sin- gular gUlaI apparition In the sky shy which see seems to have made its it appearance since the Ule early part of ot June 1910 O. O Itla It ItIs Itla la Is a 8 self luminous haze hae which has a a. slow drifting motion anlon among the thc stars and distributes itself itsel In all quarters of or orthe the sky In the form torm of ot long glowing strips usually straight and diffused and a 33 as much as s fifty degrees In length and three three- or four tour de degrees eoe In width In some cases those these enigmatic ob objects objects ob- ob are nearly or quite as bright as all the Milky Way In Its avera average e portions In transparency they resemble ordinary ordinary nary nuY haze hae and their luminosity Is ts uniformly nut uni steady Prof Professor csor Barnard has them until dawn and has hM noticed that as as daylight killed them out there were WeM strips of ot ordinary hazo haro exactly the same sam In form orm and motion and occupy occupy- ing the same sune region of at the sky My Impression sion he adds Is tot that these I hazy luminous strips were only onry ordinary ordinary nar nary haze which for tor some re reason on had become self There Is 28 the whole mystery Why arc they luminous and why have similar sim sim- ilar objects not been noticed before 1 Professor Protessor Barnard Is a a. most persistent persist persist- ent watcher of or the night sky perhaps there is no rio one ono who knows It In all aU its aspects as well as he and yet he be ha had never seen anything o of this kind previous to June 7 7 1910 Now It will be remembered that BaIleys Halley's comet was supposed to have ha swept the earth with Its tail tall on May 19 19 1910 less than three weeks before the strange shining shining- strips were first noticed Professor Protessor Barnard Is too cautious cau cau- a savant to assert that the haze r possessing such remarkable peculiarIties ties was Introduced Into the air by the comet but at the s same mo time he an says s 's Did it not seem unreasonable I on one might suspect some relation between J this condition of or the atmosphere and the possible passage of or the earth through a portion of ot the tali o of HalIcy's Halley's Halley's Hal- Hal leys ley's Then he calls for tor a more general g and very cry careful observation n i of ot tho the phenomena If It it should be pORS possible ble to capture some som of ot the particles o of this haze as i tho they slowly make their way a downward through lb the denser parts of ot the air we wema ma may have convincing proof of ot their I com t origin Suppo Supposing such proof e established what an object for tor tho the microscope scope w would uld be those thos tiny bits of ot matter which have alternately experienced ex ex- s If perIen ed the of ot Interstellar lIar c cold ld millions of ot miles beyond the utmost utmost utmost ut ut- ut- ut t most frontiers of or the solar system and the tho electric solar folar energies that fire tire the heart of ot a comet omet and make It a n. bIasing blaz bIas In ing wonder In fn the sk sky when It approaches approaches approaches ap ap- ap- ap I Its Us mas master e the sun |
