 ... In 1877, when discussing the phenomena of Nova Cygni, I advanced the view that meteoritic collisions were in all probability the cause of them. Almost, if not quite, the last view to which we have to refer is due to Mr. WHS Monck, who suggested in...  The Observatory - Page 3241885Full view - About this book
 | 1884 - 610 pages
...luminous for a short time by rnsliing thiough our atmosphere, new stars are dark or faintly luminous bodies which acquire a short-lived brilliancy by rushing through some of the gaseous masse — visible, perhaps, as nebulae — which exist in space. A member of the Lou lon Microscopical... | |
 | 1885 - 478 pages
...hypothesis has been propounded before, but 1 am not aware of its author, and in relation to the new star in Andromeda it seems worth stating again. It...probable. The vast extent of some of the known gaseous nebulae renders it much more probable that a star should rush through one of them, than that two stars... | |
 | 1892 - 850 pages
...refer is due to Mr. WHS Monck, who suggested in 1885 that new stars are dark (or faintly luminous) bodies which acquire a short-lived brilliancy by rushing...through some of the gaseous masses which exist in space. It will be seen from the above that there are more than twenty years of modern work on these strange... | |
 | 1892 - 1088 pages
...refer is due to Mr. WHS Monck, who suggested in 1885 that new stars are dark (or faintly luminous) bodies which acquire a short-lived brilliancy by rushing through some of the gaseous masses w : hich exist in space. applied to the observations recorded, and the results obtained will be very... | |
 | John Ellard Gore - 1904 - 376 pages
...luminous for a short time by rushing through an atmosphere, new stars are dark (or faintly luminous) bodies which acquire a short-lived brilliancy by rushing through some of the gaseous nebulae which exist in space." A direct or " grazing " collision between two dark bodies has also been... | |
 | 1892 - 880 pages
...refer is due to Mr. WHS Monck, who suggested in 1885 that new stars are dark (or faintly luminous) bodies which acquire a short-lived brilliancy by rushing...through some of the gaseous masses which exist in space. It will be seen from the above that there are more than twenty years of modern work on these strange... | |
 | 1892 - 1070 pages
...refer is due to Mr. WHS Monck, who suggested in 1885 that new stars are dark (or faintly luminous) bodies which acquire a short-lived brilliancy by rushing...through some of the gaseous masses which exist in space. applied to the observations recorded, and the results obtained will lie very briefly stated in the... | |
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