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...CASSIOPEIA AFFAIR by Chloe Zerwick & Harrison Brown. 235 pages. Doubleday...
Russia and China are exchanging ultimatums. The world is on the brink of a nuclear Armageddon. Then Scientist Maximilian Gaby's radio telescope picks up a message from outer space. It reveals that a highly intelligent race exists on an earthlike planet circling Cassiopeia 3579, a star some 30 light-years away. What's more, the folks up yonder are eager to communicate...
Since supernovae result from stars already shining for millions of years, the Latin term nova (new) is rather a misnomer that stems from Tycho Brahe's 1572 naked-eye study of an exploding star in the constellation Cassiopeia. Ever since the irascible Danish astronomer- detailed his observation in De Nova Stella ("Concerning the New Star"), scientists have been stuck with the term nova...
Herbert disclaims any intention of being "narrowly and offensively British." But the Great Bear (which Americans "flippantly but sensibly call the Dipper") becomes Great Britain; its stars: Shakespeare, Caxton, Pitt, Johnson, Wren, Reynolds and Handel. Herbert gives Cassiopeia to the U.S. Says he: "I shall graciously permit the Americans to have some say . . . but I have put down Lincoln, Washington, Jefferson, Grant and Roosevelt (he does not say which), and a smaller one for Paul Jones...
Another unusual star was described to the American Astronomical Society meeting at Ann Arbor last week, by young Dr. Ralph B. Baldwin of the University of Pennsylvania. Gamma, of the constellation Cassiopeia (visible in the Northern hemisphere), is 400 times brighter than the sun, nearly five times as hot. Year ago Gamma began to grow brighter, like a nova, or exploding star. Astronomers were sure that the increased brilliance would be accompanied by generation of additional heat, but they were mistaken. For the temperature of Gamma dropped from 28,800° F. to 15,660°. Last May the star...