Word: stellar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only one of several hypotheses advanced to account for the rays' origin. Dr. Millikan used to believe they were liberated in interstellar space during the coalescence of light elements into heavier ones. Dr. Fritz Zwicky of Caltech believes that cosmic rays may be the products of individual stellar explosions which occur all the time in some region or other of the universe. Hannes Alfven of Sweden's Upsala University holds that the rays are free-moving particles in space accelerated to cosmic ray energies by the magnetic fields of spinning double stars - somewhat as the man-made machine...
This brightness was manifested at the peak of a stellar explosion. The star has now subsided to 1,000,000 times the sun's luminosity...
...Zwicky has been specializing for several years in the study of supernovae or "new stars" which explode with such violence that they probably cease to exist as ordinary stellar bodies. According to the Zwicky theory they coalesce into dense globes of neutrons (electrically inert particles...
...which the solar system and all stars visible to the naked eye belong. In it the neutrons are so closely packed, according to Zwicky, that the density reaches the enormous figure of 6,000,000 tons to the cubic inch. Since the General Theory of Relativity imposes limits on stellar masses, Zwicky's new star must be exceedingly small to compensate for its high density. The astronomer estimates its diameter at no more than 60 miles...
David G. Colwell, stellar backfield coach in the Yale team last year, has been appointed as backfield coach for the Harvard Freshman team next fall, it was announced by the Athletic Association yesterday afternoon...