Word: nova
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...game fishing, like any other kind of fishing, is partly a matter of luck-being at the right place at the right time. One day last week, Commander Duncan Hodgson of the Royal Canadian Navy was at the right place, St. Ann Bay, Nova Scotia, at the right time, 1 p.m. He caught a whopper. Moreover, he did it with almost primitive disregard for what U.S. tuna experts consider standard routine...
...Nova Scotia-born Joshua Slocum taught himself navigation, by hard work advanced himself to master of clipper ships. But at a time when "our proud fleet of clipper ships was an anachronism," Skipper Slocum doggedly refused to switch to steam. By the 1890s he was without a ship and facing forced retirement. He began to think of his old boyhood dream of sailing alone around the world...
Usually when a stellar explosion occurs a very faint star is found on earlier plates in the same position as the explosion, but no progenitor has been found for the new blazing star, which is known as the Nova Lacertae...
Doctor Ellen Dorrit Roffleit, Astronomer in the Harvard College Observatory, has found a star that may be the pre-Nova. No final decision will be made until the explosion dies down...
...Nova has a magnitude of 7.2. The star it may have originated from has a magnitude of 16, which makes it 0.0001 as bright as the Nova...