Astronomers at Mount Wilson observatory, California, recently witnessed through the wOrld's largest telescope the end of a remarkable super "nova" or new star. This nova exploded at the rate of 4000 miles a second. Its temperature was 300,000 deg. 4 centigrado, and its brilliancy about 20,000,000 times that of the sun, before it f aded into gas. The explosion occurred 7,000,000 years ago, for it has taken that long for its light to reach the eartlr. Tho astronomers declared tliat this was one of the most colossal heavenly catastrophes man has witnessed.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 93, 6 May 1937, Page 6
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