{"id":8293,"date":"2016-02-22T14:51:21","date_gmt":"2016-02-22T19:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.brown.edu\/libnews\/?p=8293"},"modified":"2016-02-22T14:51:21","modified_gmt":"2016-02-22T19:51:21","slug":"nova-persei","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/nova-persei\/","title":{"rendered":"Event | The Story of Nova Persei 1901"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.brown.edu\/libnews\/8293-2\/novapersei\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8294\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8294\" src=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2016\/02\/NovaPersei-1024x495.jpg\" alt=\"NovaPersei\" width=\"584\" height=\"282\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2016\/02\/NovaPersei-1024x495.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2016\/02\/NovaPersei-300x145.jpg 300w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2016\/02\/NovaPersei-768x371.jpg 768w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2016\/02\/NovaPersei-1536x742.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2016\/02\/NovaPersei-2048x990.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2016\/02\/NovaPersei-100x48.jpg 100w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2016\/02\/NovaPersei-150x72.jpg 150w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2016\/02\/NovaPersei-200x97.jpg 200w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2016\/02\/NovaPersei-450x217.jpg 450w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2016\/02\/NovaPersei-600x290.jpg 600w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2016\/02\/NovaPersei-900x435.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A &#8220;new star&#8221; appeared in the constellation Perseus in 1901\u200b\u00a0and was observed by Professor Winslow Upton at\u00a0\u200bBrown&#8217;s \u200bLadd Observatory.\u00a0Eleven year-old\u00a0H.P. Lovecraft also saw the cosmic sight,\u00a0which inspired him to include the nova in his weird tales of horror.<\/p>\n<p>Discover the story and history of Nova Persei 1901 through the collections of the Brown University Library and Ladd Observatory\u200b <span class=\"aBn\"><span class=\"aQJ\">on Tuesday,\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span class=\"aBn\"><span class=\"aQJ\">February 23<\/span><\/span>\u00a0at <span class=\"aBn\"><span class=\"aQJ\">3:30 p.m.<\/span><\/span> in the Lownes Room of the John Hay Library\u200b.<\/p>\n<p>Brown Professor Ian Dell&#8217;Antonio will discuss the modern astrophysics of novae; Observatory Curator Michael Umbricht will describe the historic observations and present a demonstration using the astronomical spectroscope used by Upton; and Curator Holly Snyder will display rare items from the history of science special collections of the John Hay Library.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more at the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.brown.edu\/ladd\/2016\/01\/14\/a-catastrophe-of-import\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ladd Observatory blog<\/a> and\u00a0\u200bLadd Observatory&#8217;s \u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/942754745760910\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook event page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This event is part of the Ladd Observatory 125th anniversary and is sponsored by the Department of Physics and\u00a0\u200bthe \u200bBrown University Library.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Date<\/strong>: Tuesday, February 23, 2016<br \/>\n<strong>Time<\/strong>: 3:30\u00a0p.m.<br \/>\n<strong>Location<\/strong>: Lownes Room, John Hay\u00a0Library, 10 Prospect Street,\u00a0Providence<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A &#8220;new star&#8221; appeared in the constellation Perseus in 1901\u200b\u00a0and was observed by Professor Winslow Upton at\u00a0\u200bBrown&#8217;s \u200bLadd Observatory.\u00a0Eleven year-old\u00a0H.P. Lovecraft also saw the cosmic sight,\u00a0which inspired him to include the nova in his weird tales of horror. Discover the story and history of Nova Persei 1901 through the collections of the Brown University Library <a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/nova-persei\/\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Event | The Story of Nova Persei 1901<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8293\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}