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New Stars .–Extreme instances of vari-
able stars are the new stars such as those
detected by Hipparchus, Tycho Brahe, and
Kepler, of which many have been found in
the last half-century. One of the latest great
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”NovA” was discovered in Auriga by a Scots-
man, Dr. Anderson, on February 1st, 1892,
and, with the modesty of his race, he com-
municated the fact to His Majesty’s As-
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