Word: tauris
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Dates: during 1955-1955
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Astronomers believe that stars are condensations of the dust and gas that drift through space, so they watch dark or bright nebulas with special eagerness. Some of them contain "T Tauri variables":*faint stars that wax and wane irregularly. They light up the dust near them, which makes them look fuzzy, and they are so numerous in certain dusty regions that astronomers have long suspected that they are formed from the dust...
...Named for T Tauri, the best-known star of the type...
...visible in daytime. Europe was too backward in astronomy in 1054 to pay much scientific attention to the event, but Chinese and Japanese astronomers recorded it accurately. The supernova appeared over China on the morning of July 4, 1054, and its position was close to the bright star Zeta Tauri. The Indians of the U.S. southwest must have seen the supernova too, said Hoyle, and they may have recorded it in their rock inscription...
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