ASTRONOMY.

Progress, Volume VI, Issue 5, 1 March 1911, Page 565

ASTRONOMY.

A New Star. (From "Times" Astronomical Correspondent.) The close of the year 1910 has been marked by the apparition of a "Nova," or new star, in Right Ascension 22 n 32m, North Declination 52°' 15', a position which lies on the boundary line between Lacerta and Cepheus, and in the middle of the Milky Way. , : . : '., ';■ • The discoverer of the new body is the Rev. T. H. Espin, of Wolsingham Observatory, Tow Law, Durham; he is a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society, well known for the diligent watch that he keeps on the stellar heavens. It is generally agreed that the outbreak of Novae, of which this discovery, furnishes an example, denotes a collision of some kind in the heavens, but there is a difference of opinion as to what objects collide. It may be one nebula or meteor swarm coming into collision with another, or ; a star with either of these, or lastly one star with another. It is a curious reflection that the actual outburst, of which the news is now reaching us, occurred not less than three centuries ago, and quite possibly three , thousand years ago; at least this is the estimate of the distance of the Milky Way given by- Professor Newcomb and other authorities. ■ ■ ~ W: