New Star Stumps Blue Hill Workers

Astronomers at the Blue Hill Observatory are stumped by a star that suddenly exploded last month.

Usually when a stellar explosion occurs a very faint star is found on earlier plates in the same position as the explosion, but no progenitor has been found for the new blazing star, which is known as the Nova Lacertae.

Doctor Ellen Dorrit Roffleit, Astronomer in the Harvard College Observatory, has found a star that may be the pre-Nova. No final decision will be made until the explosion dies down.

The Nova has a magnitude of 7.2. The star it may have originated from has a magnitude of 16, which makes it 0.0001 as bright as the Nova.