Word: novas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...From Nova Scotia to North Carolina fog-sirens in shore stations set up a lugubrious caterwauling, and harbors were hideous with metallic moans. A dozen great ships inbound from Europe and the Caribbean, and scores of lesser liners, hove to rather than try to make port. The Cunard-White Star liner Majestic stood off Ambrose Light for two days while her impatient passengers bet on the length of the delay. The Empress of Britain reported more business at the bars during one day's delay than during a whole ten-day cruise. The French liner Champlain stuck briefly...
...story. Last year he was swimming for Levertt House. A month ago he was timed in 5 minutes and 58 seconds for the 440. Just before the Christmas recess, in the Alumni meet, he had clipped his time to 5:33 2-5. Just like the new star "Nova Herculis," Howell has risen from the 15th magnitude to the first magnitude in a month...
...violent eruption which, because of the star's distance, must have occurred about 1,500 years ago. It was throwing off two shells of tremendously hot gas at 1,000,000 m.p.h. By last week it had jumped 13 magnitudes to the first, acquired a name, Nova Herculis 1934. Its radiation had increased 200,000 times; it was among the twelve brightest stars in the sky. Directors Vesto Melvin Slipher of Lowell Ob servatory (Flagstaff, Ariz.) and Harlow Shapley of Harvard Observatory obtained remarkable spectra, said the star might be the most important stellar outburst ever witnessed...
...which may prove to be the most important stellar outburst ever witnessed is growing steadily brighter and of increasing importance, according to a report issued yesterday by Dr. Harlow Shapley, director of the Observatory, as the result of observations received from several American observatories. This star, which is called Nova Herculis 1934, was discovered in England last Friday by an amateur astronomer...
...report goes on to say that "the examination of earlier Harvard plates shows a 15th magnitude star in the position of the Nova as measured at the Yerkes observatory. The star is new of the 2nd magnitude. The explosive outburst has therefore increased the brightness by more than 100,000 times in less than a month. The spectrum, observed at Harvard and at Flagstaff, now closely resembles the spectrum of the super-giant star, Alpha Cygni, with the addition of bright lines of hydrogen and from. Enormous velocities in the exploding atmosphere are indicated by these spectrum lines...