Show NEW STAR IN AQUILA Discovered in the Draper Memorial Photographs The announcement Is made by Prof E C Pickering the director of the Harvard college observatory that In examining the Draper Memorial photographs photo-graphs Mrs Fleming has found a new star in the constellation of the Eagle Its position Is about 10 degrees southwest south-west of tho star AHalr I appears upon eighteen plates taken between April 21 1S99 and October 2 1S09 but Is not found on any one of ninetysix plates taken between August 21 1SS6 and November 1 1S9S although some of those plate show slars as faint as the thirteenth magnitude The star must therefore have made Its appearance at some time between this lastnamed date and April 21st of last year On that date and April of the seventh magnitude on October 2 1899 It was of the tenth magnitude It Is still visible through the fifteenInch telescope of tho observatory Its estimated Is estmated magni tude being now between the eleventh i and twelfth A photograph taken on July 3 1S99 shows that the spectrum of this star resembled those of other new stars that Is to say It contained strD as well as dark lines showing that a part of Its light came from Incandescent gaseous matter A photograph non n-on October 21 1S99 gives It a spectrum resembling those of gaseous nebulae and this Js the character of Its spectrum spec-trum now as observed visually This Is not the first Instance of a nova or new star ending Its brief career by becoming a nebula a fact which shows that there Is some Intimate relation between Iho two classes of objects and must bo taken account of In any theory which attempts to account for elthor The last nova preceding this appeared In Sagittarius preccdlnG degrees de-grees farther south This nova also was discovered by Mrs Fleming from photographs In 1S39 |