Word: novas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nova Scotia, excited fishermen and the captain of a pilot boat swore that they had seen an unidentified "submarine" cruise along the coast, enter Halifax Harbor. Canadian destroyers, minesweepers, and patrol planes searched fruitlessly. Nova Scotia is also a favorite resort of sea serpents...
Cold as the State of Maine and ruggedly lumpy as ever were the Hartley landscapes. But his figures - first he has painted in years-included several strong studies of Nova Scotia fishermen and an extraordinary memory portrait of the late Painter Albert Pinkham Ryder, "as seen at night at the corner of Eighth Avenue and 15th Street" (see cut). Its tonic virtue: that it brought to life without sentiment an imaginative artist whose seclusion and eccentricity delayed until after death his fame as one of the great 19th-Century U. S. painters...
Astronomers at the Harvard Observatory reported today that the Wachmann Nova, an exploding star discovered in January by Dr. A. A. Wachmann of the Bergedorf Observatory, Germany, is probably a "slow nova," of which only one example has previously been found...
...ordinary nova is a star which flares up suddenly, usually increasing its brightness by several thousand times in a few days; then it fades, in a month or two, to about half its maximum brightness, passing through several different physical stages, as revealed by its spectrum...
...Wachmann Nova, however, is expected to change perhaps fifty times as slowly as the ordinary nova, thus allowing astronomers to study its phenomena with careful observations. The nova is located in the constellation Orion...