Word: stellar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Antares dropped to second place as news came out of University of Chicago's Yerkes Observatory at Williams Bay, Wis. of a stellar monster four billion miles through the middle. If its centre were placed at the hub of the solar system it would engulf all the planets up to the last and most remote pair, Neptune and Pluto...
...star known. Around the main body of the star is a shell of gas electrified by light from Epsilon Aurigae, in the same way that the electrified shell or "radio mirror" around earth is maintained by radiation from the sun. This phenomenon has never before been observed in a stellar atmosphere. Actually, Epsilon Aurigae's monstrous, almost transparent companion has not yet been seen or photographed. It was deduced from spectrographic observations made on Epsilon Aurigae. Its size, constitution and temperature were determined after it passed in front of Epsilon Aurigae in 1929-30, like a cloud in front...
...defense Alex Kevorkian will continue to team up with Traf Hicks, while Emerson and Jameson furnish the reserve power. Vint Freedley, who played a stellar game against the Tigers, will start in the nets, although if all goes well Johnson may see some service...
...Cannon, who has been on the research staff of the Observatory since 1897, is famous for her classification of the two hundred and twenty-five thousand spectra described in the Henry Draper Catalogue of Stellar Spectra, and for her work in the field of variable stars. She has received many honors in this country and abroad...
...Gaposchkin, who has been on the research staff of the Observatory since 1927, is recognized as one of the world's two or three most prominent workers in the field of standard photometry. Her notable works include "Stellar Atmospheres" and "Stars of High Luminosity." Her catalogues of stellar magnitudes are the recognized standard...