Hale, George Ellery, 1868-1938 / 2008-06-20 00:00:00

EBOOK THE NEW HEAVENS ***


Produced by Robert J. Hall


[Illustration: Fig. 1. The Constellation of Orion (Hubble).
Photographed with a small camera lens of 1 inch aperture and 5
inches focal length. The three bright stars in the centre of the
picture form the belt of Orion. Just below, in the sword handle, is
an irregular white patch about one-eighth of an inch in diameter.
This is a small-scale image of the great nebula in Orion, shown
on a larger scale in Fig. 2.]


THE NEW HEAVENS

BY
GEORGE ELLERY HALE
DIRECTOR OF THE MOUNT WILSON OBSERVATORY OF THE CARNEGIE INSTITUTION
OF WASHINGTON
WITH NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS

NEW YORK
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
1922


TO MY WIFE


PREFACE
Fourteen years ago, in a book entitled "The Study of Stellar Evolution"
(University of Chicago Press, 1908), I attempted to give in untechnical
language an account of some modern methods of astrophysical research.
This book is now out of print, and the rapid progress of science has
left it completely out of date. As I have found no opportunity to
prepare a new edition, or to write another book of similar purpose,
I have adopted the simpler expedient of contributing occasional
articles on recent developments to _Scribner's Magazine_, three
of which are included in the present volume.
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