Evening star., 1901-04-03
How the New Star Made Its Ap-
pearance in the Heavens.
IT Was FORMERLY A DARK SUN
Set Afire by Contact With a
CIoud-Like Mass.
A VERY RARE PHENOMENON


Written for The Evening Star
r,,+ +ha au, NJ, ,oo;; :; 80.
h"' INC ne" 'ai VIVA ie.seii Is d once
oark sun suodehiy Unnamed by violent
collision in space. and that it's light waves
nave been shooting through ether century
pelore reachihg our eyes, is the OPINION eX-
pressed TO me Yesterday by irof L. ). J.i
See' Ghcie sam noted astronomer, in the
course Oh most entrrtaininS interview.
Fro1. see mas peen dlisently studying this
ne" star since II was INST seen here. He
mas nightly hXed the powerful lenses of
the naval observatory's $ twenty SIX inch tel
escone upon If
~, -, e.. ,.
A>o'' was III 81 oiS'oNeted py frol' Ahder-
son of the University of Edinburgh on Feb
ruary .21. Since then it has had the entire
astronomic' world nv, tho .oa,s o,. ra+,a; h,
the ewes If tonirb+ ic oiac, -o,, a. =, - ~
IT in the consterafinn of pars, ,'o, a,,n ,,,
against tho northuro,+ haa',a,, DIV noe e." S
told me that two 'ioi+. - - NJ. Sc
f1iscoynr,, nhataeis, ,,iS hts oeiole NoVa >
made This shows 49, VI n,;tti -. ;'.a waS
diate naiebbor,,ooa tb. ~. W IN ~ i.'
no stars hrigbtar -, w W. ,neh snlillliS
tude, On the niobt of itl e,., a;IaaIsd iaa
NJ I,,l ny y. iilsl. VI us hrSl uiscoVerS
tenths sra. roon,itS,a as s,a1 OF Two ana seven
nIa;n r,ght h,,.o ~, - 81 naps l snpulu eA-
ritnde of q 80 w. 'ne 1--WE tne mag
va,s br;tht,,ass , .ne nrisnter II is.) NO,
80, na oiIsL'hess hao therefore increased
WH.tI VII. tMo nIsnls, more tlan a,ooo fold.
a,.nd I'M H.. 'Mo Lisnts after 1t was discoV-
Vac Us s+or oisn.mess = nau increased untl II
I'd b,, sthr thr stea.er tnah the Iirst maghi-
49, ~ III ee- 'ehth Ms. since then IT'S prlsht-
Hess has peeh steadlly On the decline.
Due to Violent CoIliston.
This amazin. ro,,;at., IL, IT., ~ ..,,
ct h,a.ad 80 p.i.s WIN MN tie NV
s''i oia~eu Iorth strongly lndlcates TO frof.
oee that It's pyrotechnics were due to some
violent collision taking place In its region
of the heavens. 1t is his theory that Nova
had heen what NOV, b. +or-,,oa , aar,- s,,,,
~ may oe .eilieo d oeaih sui
ahu lhal IL plunged headforemost INTO a
aarh a clouu-nke or atmosphere-l1ke mass
noatihs IN heavenly space. The friction Of
thls nepuious mass against the hitherto
darkened sun hurrying through it would
propaoiy nave the same erect as the fric-
lioll oI our eaTth atmosphere against a
Pene e'.iiS heleoI. Inc result OF ~Sucn Il
collislon oetWeeIl nova ana the cioud-hke
OASIS IN tne vast oesert or space would,
III ilol' oee optnloh, pfoauce a vast
aiiiouht in'.ui: VI lisll anu some neat. AS the
ELouu-Ihe nndSs ilpsht pe OF "ioe extent
az ras11t hnca an ns cameu H. ;n, mouIo'
as result eeepme enormously brilliant.
AS % gu VI .ne sA3Is2!1i tne SKY nave consld
. elapie liiotIoi. ztitS colnulhs star might
pass iioush Iiie Ils,uu-iIhe envelope IN
re" weeks DepaEtiig from IL II might
g[adually @ cooi Gown, because only the out
siue layers iiau ,peeoofhe hedteo py the pcit-
s VI 'rs % e ei. uiope upon lts sur
lace. ILoI. see tAas dlscoNereu hotHlls
now so Drii1ant pqdy as Nova could nave
oohie o lol.ii opt " d pachsloul " shS
ssie"h WIN stais ali taIlit ana no greater
.i1ttl 3lle lolilseitn @ I ili'siiit ~ uue. -,
ing ahoI1t in tha beavens other dead suns
ls apou' ~ tl,e pe,s ~ e,s s oSa9 sui,e
w =, ss io',a f;io ,e "a
s,InbT q sni,Ittsr ofsfire In tho, blaclf snaca
above us. He said that the average mind
conceives of the heavens as filed only with
Drllnant podles, put Tecent inSestlsatlons
,,s;+t dar stars irH;sib,e Globes often as
large as and larger than our sun Their
existence has been determined by their
pun upon the prleht stars, causing the lat-
natbs Ie addad that in 1S40 the astrono
20. posso, ta1,i,a tbis into consideratIon
nredIcted that the dog star Sirius twice
~ y. oot ~, - an CIV Io1,1d soma da,, ha
sa as ca. "a aS ot ,ari om,nan,on star w5oiIy
,isiLi ~ ' rTtt % oanonorinn lstar Vas dis
llNlsiple. inlS IN tain,aon. h, ~ aS-
tronomer Alvan Clark in 1862, and it has
slllce peeil .hot ~ 8 .iI So ~ &, SIC
astronomers. II ls equai ~ oua sun -; ri CO..
anu lhoE e, es aEoI. VA 1 a,so nrediot ad +ba+ the
smaier dos star oIl iaa a,araa on ~. h
companion star, anu II was '.l- uiscoeeieu .s
froi. ScnapeIle az .iie b,.a.n =, q ,,a;aa -
Is9o: ~ [enorses a apGu' ;u inst sbnnt - eopai 70
OF forty years anu IS Just eo1uI eIe't az, ~
our sun IN mass. froi eee nl!ise,i ~, el,s', us
covered nfe years aeo .no. 'iis SO ~ ,t
as ~ Opmuchl hau hol oI1iy Ei.e' - ~.
two or these companions ne % aiso sus a
pected that the staI Aeta I1eicuIeS We; mas
triple, ana the Enslisn astionolier ues Lem.e wv,
or GreenWlcn. uiscoHvieu llIe .i1lt u III M
panion, dark ORD. me stai a. $50 s. NC
Joris was similarly suspecteu anu a5..L
ward proven to be Triple hd'ihs t"o oai
companions.
More Dark Than Luminous Stars.
e.o,, ,hssa investigations that
IL appear iroiii 80. -. .taao
the heavens are hterally hlieo WIN 'hese
dark bodies" said Prof. See, land that
th.ra nav ha and probably are. more dark
theie may ue' "iu - T.,or ,'saa ,o COW
than luminous ohe'' p ~ 80
that there are as many comets IN the heaV-
ems as there are fish In the sea. You may
saw that there are probably more stars,
luminous and non luminous, than there are
grains of sand on the sea shore This new
Star is only one of those grains of sand in
the immensitv of the universe. Yet on ac-
count of the collision which it has suffered
II has attracted and will continue to at
tract estronomers for time to come"
T asked the professor if, in his opinion,
there are also wandering about in the
beavens many Of these great, dark cloud
iilra masses such as Nova has collided
with. He replied that in all probability the
heavens are literally hlled with them. Ihey
are uSually nsisipl1, p"I ~ oeo -: -. iiiS ii