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Since then a new line, probably caused by a known element in a highly excited energy state, had appeared in the red zone of the spectrum, and two sodium lines had increased in brightness, reaching a maximum in December and disappearing on Christmas Eve. On Christmas night there were new sodium lines. "I had to leave them to come here," said Dr. Cherrington. "I don't know what has been going on up there since." Some 40 novae have been found since 1900, but they were all much fainter and farther away than Gamma Cassiopeiae...
...ultraviolet radiation may be so strong that human beings would have to carry umbrellas coated with lead before venturing under the glare of "Nova Cassiopeiae." Other highlights of the astronomers' convention: Nos- 60, 61, 62. In the sun hydrogen, helium, calcium, sodium, carbon, nitrogen, and many another terrestrial element have been identified by comparing the solar spectrum with very clear spectra of substances photographed in the laboratory...
Because they usually have to work & play too hard and go to bed too early, the 12 million small fry who compose a substantial element of the U. S. cinema audience cannot get to the theatre as much as either they or Hollywood producers would like. Vacations are exceptions. On the theory that children like pictures about children, several such appear at Christmas, at Easter and in June. Released on schedule last week were two major productions involving the top single-digit stars of both sexes, RKO's Bobby Breen, 9, and Twentieth Century-Fox's Shirley Temple...
Interstellar Gas. Until this year the only gases known to occur in interstellar space were sodium and calcium. Ordinarily these metallic elements must be strongly heated before they vaporize, but in the utter cold of space, close to absolute zero, they exist in exiguous quantities as free molecules and therefore as gases. In the ultraviolet range of the spectrum of the stars Chi 2 Orionis and Chi Aurigae, Astronomers Walter S. Adams and Theodore Dunham Jr. of Mt. Wilson Observatory found four lines (one of them almost blotted out by the interference of Earth's atmosphere) which they identified...
Elated but urbane, the Guild's shrewd Chairman Maurice Rentner purred: "Surely the stores in question should be convinced by this time that our plan contains many beneficial things. . . . [It] would be most regrettable if these court proceedings were to be regarded as containing an element of defeat for anyone...