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...warms with fainter Beams, the fading...
...visitors, lived quietly. Late in January he suffered a slight indigestion which gradually grew worse. In his weakened condition he could not throw it off. He fought on, gradually becoming weaker and weaker. Only during the last ten or twelve hours was he unconscious. His heart action became fainter and fainter, finally ceased from exhaustion. He was not overcome by disease. He died fighting against impossible odds-from fatigue...
...Sirius. Rigel (blue) shows two maxima, one of which is in the infrared rays, invisible to the human eye. The apparatus detects differences of a hundred-millionth of a degree of heat. That is not enough, say the astronomers. It must be sharpened to a thousand-millionth, and many fainter stars of every type must be examined. Most of these big stars are found to be at least twice as hot as the sun. The present findings are so far significant, at least, that they increase our knowledge of the physical nature of the stars...
Since the work of compiling the catalogue was undertaken, improved methods of stellar photography have made it possible to secure the spectra of fainter stars, and the new plan at the Observatory is to go for a second time over certain portions of the sky, adding the spectra of other stars than those already included...
Between December 4 and 6 the new star increased rapidly in brightness from the 16th magnitude, or fainter, to a maximum of about 6.5. Since that time it has undergone marked fluctuations in brightness and its present magnitude is only about 8.5. It is, therefore, a great deal too faint to be seen with the naked...