Word: novae
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Perhaps the most plausible explanation for the appearance of a novae is the collision of a dark star with another, or with a dark nebulous mass. If such is the case we should well expect collisions to occur most frequently in the region where stars and dark nebulae appear most abundant, as is the case in the neighborhood of the Milky Way. The discovery of a nova is always one of the more spectacular results of astronomical research which never fails to arouse popular interest. None of the recent discoveries can be found with the naked eye, their magnitude ranging...
...fifth star discovery made in five months has occurred at the University Astronomical Observatory. Miss Ida E. Woods of the Observatory staff has detected another "nova" from the examination of photographic plates...
...discoveries are made on new plates. This time, when the new plate was superimposed on the old it was found that a star recorded on the old plate did not appear on the new. A thorough subsequent search of other plates brought out the fact that it was a nova which had flourished in 1917 and had not been found at that time at any astronomical observatory...
Miss Cannon, of the observatory staff, has studied the spectrum of the new star, and finds it to be characteristic of a nova in its early stage...