Crossword clues for novae
novae
- Fertilization targets
- Suddenly bright stars
- Super stars
- Stellar phenomena
- Astronomical sightings
- Super stars?
- The brightest stars
- Pop stars?
- Certain stars
- Stars that flare
- Stars that brighten then fade
- Fading stars?
- Explosions in the sky
- Brightening stars
- Sudden superstars
- Stellar stars
- Stars that increase in brightness, then fade
- Milky Way phenomena (Var.)
- Milky Way phenomena
- Heavenly explosions
- Dazzling celestial events
- Brightest stars
- Astronomy wonders
- Astronomical bursts
- Blazing stars
- Some are super
- Astronomical flareups
- Star bursts
- Exploding suns
- Bursting stars
- Astronomical phenomena
- They may be super
- Exploding stars
- Phenomena associated with some dwarfs
- Bright spots in the sky
- Stars bursting in air?
- Astronomers' sightings
- These blaze, then grow dimmer
- Variable stars
- Flaring stars
- Ephemerally brilliant stars
- Exceptionally bright stars
- Stars that brighten and fade
- Briefly brilliant stars
- Astral phenomena
- Stars that blaze and soon fade
- Bright stars that fade
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Nova \No"va\ (n[=o]"v[.a]), n.; pl. L. Novae (n[=o]"v[=e]), E. Novas (n[=o]"v[.a]z). [L., fem. sing. of novus new.] (Astron.) A star which suddenly increases in brightness thousands of times, then fades back to near its original intensity. It may appear as a ``new'' star if its original brightness was too low for routine observation. A star which suddenly increases in brightness to many millions of times its original intensity is a supernova, and the postulated mechanisms for the increases of brightness of novae and supernovae are different. Note: The most important modern nov[ae] are: No"va Co*ro"n[ae] Bo`re*a"lis[1866]; No"va Cyg"ni[1876]; No"va An*dro"me*d[ae][1885]; No"va Au*ri"g[ae][1891-92]; No"va Per"se*i[1901]. There are two nov[ae] called Nova Persei. They are:
A small nova which appeared in 1881.
An extraordinary nova which appeared in Perseus in 1901. It was first sighted on February 22, and for one night (February 23) was the brightest star in the sky. By July it had almost disappeared, after which faint surrounding nebulous masses were discovered, apparently moving radially outward from the star at incredible velocity.
Wiktionary
alt. (plural of nova English) n. (plural of nova English)
WordNet
n. a star that ejects some of its material in the form of a cloud and become more luminous in the process
[also: novae (pl)]
See nova
Wikipedia
Novae is an archaeological site situated on the Danube in northern Bulgaria, about 4 kilometres east of the modern town Svishtov. It was a legionary base and late Roman town in the Roman province Moesia Inferior, later Moesia II.
Usage examples of "novae".
Si scoprì infatti che le novae sono una coppia di stelle con un centro gravitazionale comune, e cosi vicine l’una all’altra da causare reciprocamente notevoli influenze di marea.
Le novae avrebbero brillato abbastanza per poter essere individuate una per una con un buon telescopio, ma sarebbero state lo stesso troppo fievoli in confronto alle stelle della nostra Galassia.
Ne concluse che la nebulosa era effettivamente una galassia, che conteneva così tante stelle che le novae erano di conseguenza numerosissime.
Solitamente le novae hanno una luminosità temporanea di qualche centinaio di migliaia di volte maggiore del Sole.
It had become known as the Twin Novae Battle, but really what had been done to each of the suns had generated something more like a supernova on each.
The Mind that was Masaq’ Orbital Hub had its own reasons for wanting to commemorate the Twin Novae Battle and had asked the indulgence of its inhabitants, announcing that for the interval between the first nova and the second it would be observing its own private term of mourning, although without affecting the execution of its duties.
Would it be to mark the end of the Twin Novae period, commissioned by Hub?
Several hundred thousand smaller bodies are speeding towards us right now, earmarked to provide an over-the-top light show for the first night of your new orchestral work at the end of the Twin Novae period.
She’d wanted to be reawakened in time to see the light from the second of the Twin Novae shine down upon Masaq’.
Near the end they were both present when the Battle of the Twin Novae took place, in the region of space known as Arm One-Six.
Not from a point within the universe, for novae occur in even concentration throughout the universe.
Space must be swarming with super-neutrons-say one every thousand cubic parsecs-so that in spite of the vast distances between the stars and the relative minuteness of the targets, twenty novae occur in our single Galaxy every year-that is, there are twenty collisions between superneutrons and stars annually.
These remarkable novae, which Nushain could discern only as three reddish blurs, formed a small equilateral triangle.
There, after collating the opinions of several old-time astrologers on the power exerted by novae, he began to recast his own horoscope.
The appearance of the triangle of novae in conjunction with the Dog signified clearly that Nushain was to start ere long on an unpremeditated journey which would involve the transit of no less than three elements.