. St. Nicholas [serial]. , theleader of all the stars in the W in their daily west-ward motion, is also known by an Arabic name,Caph. In the constellation of Cassiopeia there ap-peared in the year 1572 a wonderful tempo-rary star which suddenly, within a few days time,became as brilliant as the planet Venus and wasclearly visible in broad daylight. This star isoften referred to as Tychos star, because it wasobserved, and its position very accurately deter-mined, by Tycho Brahe, one of the most famous ofthe old astronomers. This star remained visibleto every one for about sixteen months, b
. St. Nicholas [serial]. , theleader of all the stars in the W in their daily west-ward motion, is also known by an Arabic name,Caph. In the constellation of Cassiopeia there ap-peared in the year 1572 a wonderful tempo-rary star which suddenly, within a few days time,became as brilliant as the planet Venus and wasclearly visible in broad daylight. This star isoften referred to as Tychos star, because it wasobserved, and its position very accurately deter-mined, by Tycho Brahe, one of the most famous ofthe old astronomers. This star remained visibleto every one for about sixteen months, but itfinally faded completely from view, and it isbelieved that a faint, nebulous red star, visibleonly in the telescope and close to the position re- IQ2l] NATURE AND SCIENCE FOR YOUNG FOLK 1139 corded by Tycho, represents the smoldering em-bers of the star that once struck terror to thehearts of the superstitious and ignorant among allthe nations of Europe, who took it to be a signthat the end of the world was at THE CONSTELLATIONS CEPHEUS AND CASSIOPEIA Both Cassiopeia and Cepheus lie in the path ofthe Milky Way, which reaches its farthest north-ern point in Cassiopeia and passes from Cepheusin a southwesterly direction into the constellationof Cygnus. Turning now to southern skies, we find on andto the west of the meridian at this time the ratherinconspicuous zodiacal constellation of Capricor-nus, The Goat. It contains no stars of greatbrightness and is chiefly remarkable for the rea-son that it contains one of the few double starsthat can be seen without the aid of a least distance in the heavens that the unaidedhuman eye can separate is about four minutes ofarc, that is, one fifteenth of a degree in thegreat circle of the heavens. The star Alpha inCapricornus is made up of two stars separated bya distance of six minutes of arc, so that any onecan readily see that it consists of two stars veryclose together. This star, Alpha, will be found inthe extre
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