Word: wachmann
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
...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...
Observation on one of the most unusual comets ever reported, the Schavasmann-Wachmann, are being carried on dally at the Observatory under the direction of F. L. Whipple, astronomer...
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