A NEW STAR.
— »- - - DISCOVERY BT A CLERGYMAN. A new red star has appeared among tie myriad luminaries of the Milky way, near the boundary line between the constellations Lacerto and Cepheus (says the London "Daily Mail")- So large is this blazing body that it can be seen by an expert observer with opera-glasses, and yet it is so remote that its distance is almost incalculable. The discoverer of the new star is the Eov. T.'H. Espin, of Towlaw, Durham, a well-known astronomer, who>has sent the following telegram:— New star in Laoerta; red, magnitude eight; spectrum showing hydrogen and helium; detected soon after fiveafternoon December 30. No other details vet possible. —Espiu. Attempting to define its distance from the earth, the Astronomer-Royal, Mr. F. W. Dyson, said: "It is least millions of times as far from tho earth as the sun, and' tho latter is .92,000,000 . miles away." , . > Tho appearance of this new . star is thought'to be due to the passing of an old faint star through diffused gases, the friction resulting in the sudden brightness which has mads it visible to the astronomers of this world. .' /
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1053, 16 February 1911, Page 6
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186A NEW STAR. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1053, 16 February 1911, Page 6
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