Abstract

Pulsating away on the road to astronomical oblivion, this cool red giant ain’t going gentle into that dark night. Based on a report by James Cornell of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in the Autumn 1991 issue of Smithsonian Institution Research Reports, this column briefly reviews what has been happening since Mira was identified by Johannes Hevelius in the sixteenth century.

© 1992 Optical Society of America

Astrophysics

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