A NEW STAR.

Northern Advocate, 20 February 1911, Page 2

A NEW STAR.

DISCOVERY BY A CLERGYMAN,

A new red star has appeared among the myriad luminaries of the Milky Way, near the boundary line between the constellation Lacerto and Cepheus (says the London "Daily Mail"). So large is this blazing body that it can be seen by an expert observer with opera glasses, and yet it is so remote that its distance is almost incalculable.

The discoverer of the new star is the Rev. T. H. Espin, of Towlaw, Durham, a well-known astronomer, who has sent the following telegram: New star in Lacerta; red, magnitude eight; spectrum showing hydrogen and helium; detected soon after five afternoon December 30. No other details yet possible.

—Espm.

Attempting to define its distance from the earth, the Astronomer-Roy-al, Mr F. W. Dyson, said. "It is at least millions of times as far from the earth as the sun, and the latter is 92.----000,000 miles away."

The appearance of this new star is rhought to be due to the passing of an old faint star through diffused gases, the friction resulting i i the .sudden brightness which has made it visible to the astronomers of this world.