The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1901-04-05

lon 'Npr-sSr,i u me Yesterday Dy PJrf L.
J. }. See. Cuci, \ ms II )yei aStro lOmar,
il The c,,IrS:, II u nlost entertaining invar-
view. Prof Sse has bsea diligently stuly-
Ing this ZEN star since iC WAS list stoa
here. He has nightly fixed the powerful
l'nson al the NAVAL observatory > twenty
SIX inch I. .lsscope upon il. Wa.u | vlSi.-
ed the observatory antl asked SGpetinten-
dent Davis 10 diTect Inc to SOme one WHO
could reveal to me the secrets now being
'earm d form Nova PerSei, h. seat fIr
Prof. See.
Doubtless you alrea iy kno v That Nova
for such Is the new star dubbed toi
eholt--was first discovered by Pro Andes-
Sou rf the University of Ed,hburG on
February u Since then it, has had the
entire aStIouom;c world by tn, earS-or,
rather, by the ey,s If tonight is clear
yGn cam see in the constellation at PerSeu'.
now low against the northwest heavens.
Prof See told me that two nights before
Nova, discovery a aphOtoSrdph of is lie
giun was made. This shows that within
rs immediate nciShb )rhord There wers.
then shining no stats mi5Tt'r thta the
teu;h magnitude. On the night of the
lirS discovery Nova shDre as 4 St,t Of
two ana Seveil-tenths maynitu t.. (p,r-
hap, l should explain right here thu thy
lower the magnitude of Il star The brighter
il is Nuva'S brightness had thSsforr
Increased Within two uigh'S mHSeSthan
) OG1 fold. Within two nights after Il;
was di>covcted lis bc'gntrieSS ta in-
creased until 1t was star greater ihtn
the first magnitude by three-tcnthS
Since then It's D,;Sr;laSS ms O;tI stead
iy Oh the decline.
DUE 20 VIOLENT COLr.ISI y.
This amazing rapility with whish the
new star b.,Zed forth SIT mglv indicates
- Prot See thatit pNrntrchni,.S w,.re dnr
10 some violent cullI,.ol taEinr pa iu
its region IF the 'ptve'S |. Is ni, theory
int Nova had been what tu,v b. eru-d
u lark sun aud tia, IL piuns-'t hra lEur-
most inioa dark clout-li&e ot a'n)S
ph- e-like mass Il ,ating in h-avenly Sp zee
Tue 1. ;ciiop of ihiS nebulouS mass agAinst
4 ehlrherto da,kned sun hurryi & hronyh
it would probably have the an. fleet aS
the friction of our ealth'S a:m pSDhere
a. ,iust penetrating meteor. Th. result
of such collision between Nova an tue
c,uud-like oasis in the vast dcSArt y!
space would in Prof S.o'S opilL1,l, pro-
Gucc Il vdsg amount of light aid Si!n =
Of wide extent the giant star-meteJr, aS
he called II, would, as a result, BIC nne
ENORMOUSLY Brilliant. As AL ot tn"
sta,s in the sky have considerable notion.
tins Colll!lnI STAR might laiS thrnugh
the CiOui-.ik4 envelope III Il few weeks
Departing fr0M 1t It might gra'iuiliy
COO! dow, brcals. Only the ouiSila lay
ers had h-canle heatet Nv ilis peitiug or
the clol;-hne euvrIore u9 ~ its su t ,ca
Prot. See has discovered nothing else in
this region OF tn SKY II i,.dicite how ST.
Brilliant Il bJiJ rs Nova could have
come forth ou5 OF Il background Of sky
strewn with stars al INT aud no gre .ter
than th- fourteenth mayuitu lie
| asked tue asfronOmec ii In re are
hiding about in ths heavens 9th 4r d. ,i
suns Or stars, darkened rs was Npvt
before it cIlilded with this cioui-lke
mass and male such splutter of tire in
the black space above US. He said that
the average mind conccives Of the hra-
vens rs Tiled only with briiiiani. b ID cS,
Lu: recent investigations Ey aStronom trs
Indicate that they ab)und with dark
stars. invisible globes often rs llrye as and
larger than our sun. Their eXistenc .
his been determined by theic pull upon
smaller, to devlate from theiI paths. He
added that in 1910 the as ronom;r,
Be,s+l, taking this into consideration,
predicted that the dog star, SrihS, twice
as great as our sun. would som, day b.
found to have dark companion star
wholly invisible. This companion star
was discovered through the telescope by
the Astronomer Alvan Clark, in 1862,
and it has since been thoroughly investi-
gated by other astronomers IL is about
equal To our sun in siz4 and moves about
on its orbit on"e in fifty years. Be'Se!
had also predicted that the niller q "
star, PrOcyon, had an invisible compiu-
ion star, and 1t Was discovered by Pior
Sck.berie, at the Lick Observatory, in
1896 IC revoves about Piocyon III IL
priiol of forty years and is just about
equal to our sun in mass. Prof. See
h!nseif discovered five years ago tn Il
the star known as 10 OphiucIi" II IT
not only one, but two, Of these comp VI
ions. He also suspected that The star
/eta Hercules was triple, and ths Eng
lsh Astronomers Lewis, Of Greenwich.
discovered the third companion. a dark
olb. The STAG Nj Urst Maj iris WAS
simi!arl, suspected and afterward proven
10 be uiple, having two dark comp W.
ions
MORE DARK THAN LUMINOUS STAR
1T appears from thes' investigators &
that the heavens are literally Glifd with
these dark bodies.o said Prof Sc, ''a.id
that there may b.. aud pcobahv are
more dirk than luminous on..S. X Ell
Iiae to say tn 1t there are as mlny con-
cts III the heavens ~ there are fish in the
SEA. You MAJ say thit there are prob
ably more stars, llmiaons ani r0n-llm-
nous, than tG".n are grdins ~ sud on
tie aei,iiOre. Tni' ne y star Is nniy one
Of those grains, OF sand ia thr iDm-n.
ST." Of the universe Ut on account ot
the Collision NYhinl itshII S,Itr I'D n b ~