Show SKY FIREWORKS CAUSED BY STAR BLAST z z ASTRONOMERS SEE BRILLIANT EXPLOSION 1 I I II I 1 g 74 w- w WHERE SCIENTISTS STUDY THE SUN THIS V EW WAS TAKEN AT THE SUMMIT OF MT WILSON SHOWING Tf-E Tf THE FOOT 75 AND l FOOT FOOT TOWER TELESCOPES TO THE RIGHT t By DAVID DIETZ NEA Service Writer I f MT WILSON April 10 1 10 10 floe Thi explosion ot or stars star That Is IsI the theory held by modern astron omen astron I omers to account for or the th forma forma lion Of ot the thi ring nebulae I I The theory was w explained to me hero at it the tha 1 Mt Wilson observatory by Dr Edwin one on ot or the worlds world's chief authorities on the subject or of o nebulae I The Thi ring rine nebulae are ar among the most peculiar objects object to be bi seen Inthe Inthe In the tho sky ticy i i I 1 iI They look like the th smoke moke rings blown Mown by an ex expert eabert erL cigar clear smoker nut But it ft would have hav to be a gigantic smoker to blow such rings for the diameter ot or these rIng rine nebulae is ot or miles AT CENTER CENTERI I I ISTAR STAR I I There Is always lw y a star at at t the of ot a a ring rine nebulae And astronomers today loday believe that the smoker who WIlO blew tho Iho ring nebulae In each each case case was wis this central star t r Occasionally what whit the thai astronomer astronomer I mer met calls caUs a nova noT or new star i bursts forth In the th heavens Dr told me This Of o course cour e Is li not Dot really a anew new Dew star kilt but Imply a a dim or 01 In vIsIble star alar which has burst forth into titan tic new brilliance Only a gigan gigan- tic explosion of the star could ac- ac account ac- ac account ac account count for such uch an in Increase In brilliance In In most moat cases cage these DeW new stars or novae noT i are 10 so far tar away that it itIs itIs ItI Is impossible to get direct tele- tele telescopic telescopic evidence ol or exactly what Is happening The theory wa was advanced how however ever that the th ring rine nebulae must have orIginated from rom the exploSion explosion sion slon of or these novae novie or new v stars tar the nebulous or material which forms torms the ring rint being mate mate- material matt rial nat rial which asS as Va hurled out out-of the star by the exp and held In Inthe the ling line formation by the tue pull null of o the tb star That theory has ha recently been given brilliant confirmation by ob ob- ob observers ob servers In two cases casei where here novae were close clo enough to afford good observation the formation of ot such rIng nebulae has ha actually been observed with the tb telescope It should be remembered that the ring rine nebulae nebula sometImes called the nebulae are ro one on or of three general types type of o nebulae oh- oh ob In the heavens The rIng nebula are of course coune within our own universe ox or galaxy salary ol ot stars atari A second type ot or nebula withIn our own universe are the great treat Ir Ir- Ir lr shaped masses of dust and nd cas gas called the tho diffuse nebulae The Th third type Is the tin spiral neb nebula ula The Th spiral nebulae lie ll far beyond the tho boundaries of ot our own universe or of o stars and as a the work of Dr Dr Hubble has hai shonn sho constitute constitute tut conall-tut tute smaller universes in themselves them them- selves |