. TOTAL OK 1914, SHOWING CORON.\. Reproduced, by permission, from the â ' Monthly Notices " of the Royal Astrommica Society. and that " we can scarcely doubt that he has indicated the right sort of ; The Densest Known Star The American astronomer, Mr. F. C. Jordan, an- nounces the discovery of a remarkable eclipsing variable star. The period of variation from maximum to maximum or minimum to minimum is a little less than six hours. Like other eclipsing variables, the star is a binary or double ; and a study of the light curve indicates that the components of
. TOTAL OK 1914, SHOWING CORON.\. Reproduced, by permission, from the â ' Monthly Notices " of the Royal Astrommica Society. and that " we can scarcely doubt that he has indicated the right sort of ; The Densest Known Star The American astronomer, Mr. F. C. Jordan, an- nounces the discovery of a remarkable eclipsing variable star. The period of variation from maximum to maximum or minimum to minimum is a little less than six hours. Like other eclipsing variables, the star is a binary or double ; and a study of the light curve indicates that the components of this binary are dwarf stars of high density and elliptical in shape. The two stars being approximately equal in size, it is possible to compute the upper and lower limit values for the mean density, which Mr. Jordan finds to lie between 3-4 and 2-2 times the density of the sun. This star is, therefore, the densest star
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