The heavens above: a popular handbook of astronomy (1882)
Gillet, J. A. (Joseph Anthony), 1837-1908 · New York, Chicago, Potter, Ainsworth, & Co. · leaf 388
. 356. New Stars. — In several cases stars have suddenlyappeared, and even become very brilliant; then, after alonger or shorter time, they have faded away and disap-peared. Such stars are called new or temporary stars.For a time it was supposed that such stars were actuallynew. They are now,… … they blazed forth in so extraordinary a manner, and thatthey are in the same places still. There is a wide differencebetween these irregular variations, or the breaking-forth oflight on a single occasion in the course of centuries, andthe regular and periodic changes in the case of a star…
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