The Banners of the Sun

Written by serviss | Published 2023/03/25
Tech Story Tags: history | classic | hackernoon-books | project-gutenberg | books | garrett-p.-serviss | science | curiosities-of-the-sky

TLDRAs all the world knows, the sun, a blinding globe pouring forth an inconceivable quantity of light and heat, whose daily passage through the sky is caused by the earth’s rotation on its axis, constitutes the most important phenomenon of terrestial existence. Viewed with a dark glass to take off the glare, or with a telescope, its rim is seen to be a sharp and smooth circle, and nothing but dark sky is visible around it. Except for the interference of the moon, we should probably never have known that there is any more of the sun than our eyes ordinarily see.via the TL;DR App

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Written by serviss | I look to the stars and see our future.
Published by HackerNoon on 2023/03/25