Word: cygnus
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...discovery of a nova, or new star, on May 8 by Anderson. The initials of the discoverer are not given in the cablegram, but it is presumed that he is the Rev. T. D. Anderson, an English clergyman and amateur astronomer. The new star was situated in the constellation Cygnus, and was of the fifth magnitude, or in other words just about bright enough to be seen with the naked eye under very favorable conditions. The cablegram was relayed to the University by the Bureau of Astronomical Telegrams at Copenhagen, Denmark...
...comet was reported to be in the constellation Cygnus. It was much too faint to be seen without a telescope. During the interval between Thursday and Sunday, however, it was reported to have increased in brightness from magnitude 11.5 to magnitude...
...slight that it took 300 years of patient endeavor before instruments were perfected sufficiently exact to discover this so-called "parallax" which gave the clue to stellar distances. The first star to have its distance determined in this way is a faint star numbered 61 in the constellation Cygnus now visible in the eastern sky. Its distance was found to be about 60,000,000,000,000 miles, or so far away that the light from it consumed ten years in reaching the earth. This happened in 1840. Since that time hundreds of stars have had their distance measured similarly...