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...four year ebb in the membership of Harvard's only fraternity reversed itself with a flood of new members last Fall, as sophomores seeking beery fellowship discovered Sigma Alpha Epsilon...
...bodies circling Barnard's Star, which is 5.9 light-years from earth. Now van de Kamp has announced a discovery that may be still more significant. At a meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Las Cruces, N. Mex., he reported finding another unseen body orbiting the star Epsilon Eridani, 10.7 light-years away. The mysterious object does not fit any conventional category. Too large to be considered an ordinary planet, it is also too small to be regarded as a true star...
...used Sprout's 24-in. refracting telescope to photograph at regular intervals the several hundred stars in the sun's immediate neighborhood in hopes of detecting any odd movements in their paths. In addition to his interest in Barnard's Star, he was particularly intrigued by Epsilon Eridani. Though most nearby stars are small, relatively faint "red dwarfs," Epsilon Eridani is a bright yellow-orange star somewhat like the sun with about seven-tenths of its mass and 30% of its luminosity. Thus, if there were any planets in orbit around Epsilon Eridani, at least one might...
...hole. That should not be as implausible as it sounds. Scientists are already looking for binary stars* with invisible partners that may have disappeared into black holes, but are still exerting a measurable gravitational pull on the visible star. One promising-looking partner causes celestial dimouts of the star Epsilon in the constellation Auriga. These dimouts could not be due simply to a black hole passing in front of Epsilon Aurigae; the collapsar would have to be improbably large to cause that effect. But, as Cameron writes in Nature, a huge cloud of dust trapped around the black hole might...
President (former V.P. and Social Chairman), Sigma Alpha Epsilon; Freshman Jubilee Committee; Kirkland House football and golf...