Reality Check
Penultimate Amazing
This is Birkeland said (emphasis added):...snip...
Figures 247a and 247b are thus analogies of Saturn's rings.Originally Posted by Birkeland
It is by powerful magnetisation of the magnetisable globe that the phenomenon answering to Saturn's rings is produced. During this process, polar radiation and disruptive discharges at the equator such as that shown in fig. 247a (which happens to be a unipolar discharge) may also occur, if the current intensity of discharge is great. If the magnetisation of the globe be reduced (or the tension of the discharge increased) gradually, the luminous ring round the globe will be reduced to a minimum size, after which another equatorial ring is developed and expands rapidly (Fig 247 b).
This is on page 661 just above figures 247a and 247b. This paragraph is in a section about the Sun. It is not about the Sun.
Birkeland goes on to speculate that the Sun in an eclipse could display a similar ring as Saturn.
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