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...deuterons-the heavy hydrogen nuclei derived from heavy water. Individual atoms have been smashed, but in a bomb atoms must explode in quantity, each disintegrating atom setting off others. The new Nazi experiments are said to be along lines suggested by the composition of the "White Dwarf," companion of Sirius, which is the densest known star...
...brightly starred, with "room still for such names as Sevastopol and Smolensk and Stalingrad." China gets Cygnus (Chiang Kai-shek for Deneb, Confucius for Albireo, etc.). Germany and Japan get nary a one, but Hitler and Mussolini are placed in the constellation Draco (the Snake) renamed The Tyrants. Sirius, brightest star in the sky, falls in the constellation of South Africa and is called Smuts. There are constellations for the arts, science and for children (with stars for Alice and Peter...
...star. But when the hydrogen is gone at last, it will grow cooler, collapse into an enormously dense, feebly shining dwarf star, with its fragments of ruined atoms crushed tightly together. Such dense dwarf stars are already known to astronomers; one of them is the dim companion of bright Sirius...
...North Atlantic in 1933-the days when, on their way home, they landed at the Cape Verde Islands on their way to South America, found the sea too rough to permit a takeoff, returned to Africa and waited impatiently for wind strong enough to get their heavily loaded Lockheed Sirius into...
...hundred years ago next month a group of top-hatted Manhattanites, led by their mayor, put out from a shaky pier in the North River to cheer the arrival of the British steamer Sirius, which, with 40 passengers, had made the voyage from Ireland in 18 days. Though the U. S. ship Savannah and Canada's Royal William, both with auxiliary steam equipment, had sailed the ocean years earlier, the little 178-foot, 700-ton, paddle wheeler Sirius was greeted by the mayor as the first vessel to cross the whole Atlantic under steam power. Wooden-built...