Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-09-15
RIRrn or A VIEW STAR.
old Time Cherished Assrcn.,. nicai Theories


old Time Cherished Artrcno. meal Theories
Upset.
Astronomers have for the first Time In
the worlds history assisted at the birth
of a new member Of our stellar system.
nr. IIarting, of the Dcrpat University
Observatory In Russia, is the godfather
OF this by no means little stranger, which
may be thirty million times larger than
our sun, and which by It's mere birth
threatens to upset many OF our most
cherished astronomical theories. The
nehula at Andromeda rs the mother OF the
new star Between aud 10 O'Clock
/ ON any clear evening the newly
born star may he found IN the
eastern sky, well mp from the horizon, as
a glowing point of the eighth magnitude,
surrounded by the cloud-likc mist OF the
ncbula from which Il sprlng. 4 good
PAIR of opcn-glaSscs Will clearly show
both the nehula aud star. Our midwife
astronomers are now hard at work meas
uring, weighing and gosslpplng about the
I unexpected youngster, which has given
them no cause for complaint MS regards
either growth OF ability to make noise
In the world. On August 10 the nchula
was carefully scanned, but not the
slightest signs OF change were observed.
The nebula, according 10 n photograph
then taken, remained In its ordinary con-
dltlon of gigantic agglomcration of
family glowing star mist, in which the
most powerful telescopes could dlstin-
guish nothing except a family defined
nucleus of ncbula On August ~ the new
star was seen rs brilliant point near the
nucleus, but the great Importance OF the
discovery was not appreciated until
, last week. Since its sudden birth
the star has given constant
cause for astronomical gossip on
, account of ite irregular habits
! Not only has 1t changed it's position IN
the sky by ten seconds in one direction
/, and two seconds IA the other, but it alsc
i shines with an unsteady, flckering
orangelke light, new to members of the
7 staid star family These manifestations
b, may be simply q species OF stellar wild
A oats, from which the new star vii
! emerge TO be n credit to IL
mother, or thew may portend I
a career as startling as its origin
K Godfather llarting declines TO pre-
!. diet his nurseling's future, and Mr.. Rich
~ ard A. Proctor, who has the reporter
v seat at all celestial events, is equally non
). commlttal. Certain IL Is, at any rate
q that by its birth, its life and perhaps IL
Il death, this dissolute star will teach as
/ tronomerS many valuable lesson con
corning the universe. II may he that
win leave behind IL II II dies wreck O
r, theories which will bring gray headed as
e tronomers I'm sorrow TO new "a'"isi
- 1t is an odd fact that the variable star
# which occasionally and unexpectedly ~
a pear in the heavens generally appear !
n the midst of gaseous nobulr. This seem
:, to emphasize still further the differcnc
II between the new unknown and other me-
m stars, for Andromeda Is shown by th
Ia spectroscope to be stellar, not gascor
9. nebulg Moreover, all astronomers S
y, far agree that the new star Is not worl
! out sun unexpectedly blazing into lii,
/. but Is, on the contrary, n new agglon
la Grafton OF force and matter suddenly CIR
m atcd or brought together by laws not y,
n crcn to be guessed at by our sclenc
,o With its first flicker the new star shoe
~ La Place. ,nebular hypothesis until scan
al and flaws stand out all over this thcorci
Iv cal explanation of the creation, for
"a single "catastrophicn sun blazing o
ON with full powers would utterly upset
~. theory which demands ages
ia slow accretion before such -
nd would even be thought of. tn
IN star may prove, also, that our universe
NV after ali but one system OF stars, and tn
.rt the theory of stellar systems, accordll
M to which ours is but one OF many sy
mi tens, is untrue. This new teacher seen
to to show that all the wonderful variety
mi suns, double, triple and multiple, far di
ie tant clouds OF suns, and star dust ~
,r. star yapor as well, are alike par
mo of our own system, not strangers, 81
81. ect to other laws and with other atti
On butes. As this star, by Its birth, hi
shown the universal kinship Of world
no NAV itnot also enable astronomers to To-
mi forward to the end of all mattcrf Wi
~. the British association discussing II fro
of the Aberdeen point of view, with te
NJ. scopes pointing from all the obseryatorI
,is of this hemisphere toward IL, and with !
he Economical Wears writing letters about
nd the new star must certainly tell what
ks has 10 tell.