The times., 1901-03-10
BRILLIANT NOVA PBRSEl
Popular Attention Directed Toward
the New Stellar Attraction.
Flashing in the Henvens Millions Of
Miles Distant From the Earth
Nothing Equal to II Has Occurred
for the Last Three Hundred Years.


The ordinary man Is star gazer by
nature. The spacious ornament Oh
f,frb whether by day or night, has ever
been a source Of attraction 10 aWelleI5
,lron the dun earth. II IS questionable IL
tbere have been in recent years stars
that at intervals fly into the heavens aAu
either stay there or tE back again i--l'
the realms from which they came li-'0
I'm the minds of astronomers. amateur "i
7,,.ofeesioral. have attracted more atle--
lion than the latest arrival when l'9h UP
i+s aboae IN the colst- liatl2n 1tI7'.'7'
Every one VINO has time and iNc.l.-'t' '-.'-'
=, note The tracks the brilliancy and lAe
general conduct of planets AeAeIa'is ''-.
Given more than ordinary atlsAll'A ~
1ris newcomer in the nocturnal sF-iv5'
Among the amateur astronomers " "i-e-
ecl5ren T. regarded as valuable I'D 'A1 o'-
,,.r,-a-ra of the wonderful spangies lAat
make night glorious is >. W. buiAl4'-iii'
cIsrIz Of The United States Circuit Court
IN Chicago. who, although young man.
RS discovered and catalggled over q
thousand double stars.
Nothing in the whole universe ever
stsr5s stilI." said Sir. Durham, and
changes are constantly taking place ia
,ba heavens. Just the same as anywhere
&c. discoveries Of new things among
,be stars are continually being made ana
nil prolablv continue TO be made 10Y an
,3,,e to come. Within the last decade CT
80 o number Of interesting things nave
1,acD discovered ia regard TO NarlaD-S
stars. double stars, comets. etc. 'uI le"
- ,bav, have been OF a character 10
lro,-sa so much interest as the hncIaS
OF the new star.
.Often the discoveries which interest
-. 7,,,f,lfc most and which, from q popu-
lar standpoint are more or less oi a sen
s-tfonal character. are made with lAe anu
Of q small four or tive-inch telescope
r.bese small instruments are easily nan
died and can be swept over the heavens
without the least diElculty-much more
readily than the larger and more cumoer-
some telescopes, which can be turned only
slowly. Most comets are discovered with
these smaller Instruments. The ne" star
IS SO large however, that Il needs no tel
eecope to be seen plainly. for il is be
tween the first and second magnitude III
size
Among the interesting facts adduced in
regard 20 the new Dno are the following
The new star is 6,yJJppJ tlfleS as lar
from the earth as the SUM- roughly speak
ing $50 trilliOns Of miles. This Is 50 Tar
that
he sudden liufAludlBon lIaL nov has
attracted the attention Of the aStrOnom-
ers must have occurred about 1893. II has
taken the light uinety-eight years TO dart
across the abyss Of space TO the earth,
II there had been a wire 10 telegraph
the news, and the message was nled At
the time Of its occurrence, people would
receive IL about the year -iGli
II the explosion caused by the rush Of
this gigantic world into the gases OF some
uebular body (Which, the scientists be-
licve caused the sudden flare upb was
loud enough 10 reach the earth, people
will hear the sound Of the crash some
thing like sieh."0 years from now;
II the new star is travelling toward us,
even at the average planetary rate,
there is no occasion for alarm II VIII
take il 10 reach our neighborhood S0sVJJ
years.
tify has carefully observed the new star
and has made interesting comments upon
II both as regards the star ltssll ana ais }
ia comparing IL with otner extremely
brilliant stars which have appearei L.
Ut is wonderful phenomenon, this
star" said Prof. LaVos Nothing 10 equal
ST has occurred for the last 800 years.
ONLY two stars Of such bTllllancy nave
sppcared since men first began 70 study
the heavens. The first Of these was Iy-
rhos star In 1872. This star suddenly ap-
peared IN the constellation Casslopela'
grew as bright as Jupiter and then dis
aDpeared. never to return. In 1914 kepler
discovered q new star IN the conSteIl&-
tion Ophiuchus II became 50 bright tBat
il could be seen in daylight, but IN two
years it faded away and disappeared al
togther.
astronomers account for sudden apear-
ances like this. The first is that some
Ytar Of previous significance, say Of the
twelfth or thirteenth magnitude, has en-
countered meteOric shower in the
<-.szse OF its travels, and that its energy