Word: nebula
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Used on a distant nebula, this speedometer indicated that it was traveling at the rate of 2,500 miles an unheard-of rate of speed even for astronomy. Mathematicians worked over this and other results to prove that the distant nebulae are in some manner tangled up in the outer folds of the universe, so that their light waves are being broadened by the Einstein effect rather than by their speed...
Mayor James M. Curley of Boston, reluctant to temporize, has placed his demand for an appointment directly before President Roosevelt and Secretary Hull. A certain polite nebula hangs over the administration, and its views of Mr. Curley, but there can be little doubt that he has engineered a very disturbing situation. The strong light thrown on the more disagreeable phases of the patronage system, however, has brought a significant issue into relief...
...Edwin Powell Hubble, Mount Wilson Observatory astronomer, told visiting members of the National Academy of Sciences that he had rechecked this phenomenon of the spectral shift through the Mount Wilson telescope which can see farther into space than any other telescope in the world. Dr. Hubble analyzed 34 nebulae carefully by means of a spectroscope which breaks up a ray of light, shows the different colors of the spectrum which compound it. He found with few exceptions a uniform shift toward the red from the nearest to the farthest nebula, 75 million light years away. For every million-light-years...
...were shining where Nova Pictoris had shone alone. Discovered in 1925, the star had been behaving in orderly fashion, following the regular pattern of its ancestors: first a mass of fiery brilliant gases, then cooling, contracting, dimming. Recently the La Plata Observatory in Argentina reported strange doings in the nebula of the young star. When the Union of South Africa Observatory last week turned its great 26 inch telescope on Nova Pictoris and revealed another star by its side, some astronomers proclaimed that the star had split in two. English and American astronomers were skeptical. Splitting a star...
...only from man's point of view, having existed long years before attaining the brightness which makes them visible through a telescope. But no other new star has behaved like Nova Pictoris. It may be that a terrific local explosion has occurred in part of the nebula making this area suddenly brilliant with a luminosity of its own, giving it the appearance of another star. Perhaps some dark invisible star has caromed into the gaseous globe, setting up a fiery fever at the place of injury. Or it may even be that Nova Pictoris always had a companion which...