Show A DISCOVERY IN ASTRONOMY It Establishes tho the Correctness of Jho Tho Nebular Theory Te r rf t f 1 j i I of or orI Involution lime Ibe lie lacy nodI Nov No 0 W IV lUtchey il lie of o time the Yerkes observatory Is reported r to have imae lalu a I discovery In astronomy which will wi make lake himself and amI the observatory famous Tho The die dis discovery covery In brief I Is II the time proof of ot what Is known ns as the tho nebular theory theor and amid Prof Proto Ritchey appears to have hare reduced to a 1 matter of ot certainty what has hereto heretofore horto heretofore fore been ben merely a brilliant hypothesis It 1 Is claimed that ho hI hm has done one this In imm obtaining photographic evidence of ovo IVO amon the time planetary bodies The observatory tory Is part of tho the 1 University of ot Chicago though located nt at lt Williams Buy Duy Eu Lake Luko Geneva Genva Vis It I was wall endowed by 1 Chins Cha Chat T Yerkes of at this city Prof observations It I IH iii II claimed not nol only provo the tIme truth of ot the celebrated nebular theory of ur crea creation creaton creation tion ton announced by b the tho famous French rench Frenchman Frenchman man Inn La Place Ilace and of ot tho the widely en entertained belief belet that the time lohl system and even eyen star clusters have been formed by millions of ot years of ot slow evolution from great bodies hodies holes of ot gaseous matter Shouting floating In the time Inconceivable abysses of or sinco but also provo Prove ove that n a I a 1 atar tom for a Its shape and Ind the quantity of ot light l ht It emits and that these changes mire are Irl so within tho the rapid as to bo be Je observable compass of ot n II few tew hours Astronomers havo long Ion believed bleed that of solar the thc nebulae were the time matrixes systems and star clusters like hike our own but no observer hind had been en able to tose see se the slightest sign of ot change In the structure This Thus has bas now been done don by Prof PIot Ritchey Richey who Is busily engaged en aged In preparing for the tho technical Journals an nn announcement of ot his discovery The Time celestial object upon which Prof Prot hiss has mode his hits observations Is hi the tho mysterious star Nova No of ot Perseus which suddenly appeared last February In the time northern sky sk Its Is light rapidly Increased until It became n a r star of the first magnitude Then It gradually faded away aWa until now It Il Is I only of the tIme sixth magnitude At present It I Is al altogether altogether altogether together Invisible to the unaided vision viRion On 01 the night nh h of ot Sept 20 Prof photographed Nova No of ot Perseus by hy hymNS means of ot the thie th ut nt the time observatory The Time negative disclosed the time fact that time the star stam was surrounded by b n a nebulae a tact fact which had imad hal not nt previously been shown by imy 1 another ob oh observer server ener Hut limit on time the plate made 1 by b Pro Pot after an nn exposure of t three hours houra and minutes there were two fairly lease dense wisps of ot nebulosity nb toward the time west with wih a curve carve to the time north merging Into the time cono convolutions lotions of ot this the nebulae This nile was a n startling tact fact but Prof watt wait waited ed ell patiently for or a favorable night to secure another negative The Tho opportunity unity tUlly came last Wednesday night nl ht Nov 13 when for several hours Prof Pr atele his plate to the time light of ot the mysterious star When he lie looked lok d ut at the negative he observed tt U I fact In which he hI recognized the proof Regions long and so em IO ardently wished for tor by b everywhere arher The Time spots of ot density In the tIme West vest We t field of ot the th nebulae moved Never before had this amazing fact tact been found anti Prof Prot who ut nt once Oce saw Ia the important importance of ot the discovery he had made was waa gratified beyond words |