Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 128, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 May 1919 — ENORMOUS GAS CLOUD HOVERS O’ER SUN’S EDGE [ARTICLE]

ENORMOUS GAS CLOUD HOVERS O’ER SUN’S EDGE

Chicago, 111., May 29.—Announcement of an unusual celestial phenomenon, an enormous cloud of gas gathering on the eastern edge of the sun, was made from the Yerkes observatory of the University of Chicago today. . It was announced m connection with the total eclipse of the sun at 8 a. m., today, central time, which was visible at Brazil and equatorial Africa. * Thelgas cloud, said Prof. E. B. Frost, of the Yerkes observatory, must have caused a brilliant spectacle, where the total eclipse was cloud was first discovered two days ago. It has grown to one of the largest of its kind ever observed at Yerkes, where it is paid to be now entirely detached worn the sun and to extend for about 340.000 miles in an arc along the sun’s edge, probably 125.000 miles away from the edge. The distance from the sun to the top of the cloud is estimated at 200,000 miles. A sun spot is becoming visible beneath the cloud on the sun’s edge.