The reading room
Lost Worlds #5
This is an anthology issue containing multiple science fiction and educational stories. "Visitors from Space" presents factual information about comets, explaining their composition, structure, and orbital behavior, noting that comets were historically thought to be omens of death and destruction. "Aurora Borealis" discusses the northern lights phenomenon, describing how the aurora appears in the night sky in varied colors and forms an arch across the heavens, and explains through modern science that the aurora borealis is caused by sun spots and solar cycles creating streams of electrons that ionize atmospheric gases. The issue also includes a prose story about a young Patrolman named Garrigan who crash-lands a jet on Venus and must survive in the hostile Fog-forests while awaiting rescue.