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More to the North Star Than Meets the Eye

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the polaris-trifecta dept.

__roo writes "By stretching the capabilities of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to the limit, astronomers have photographed the close companion of Polaris for the first time. This sequence of images shows that the North Star, Polaris is really a triple star system. 'The star we observed is so close to Polaris that we needed every available bit of Hubble's resolution to see it'" said astronomer Nancy Evans of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, Massachusetts."

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  1. Not Informative by saskboy · · Score: 4, Funny

    "sequence of images shows that the North Star, Polaris is really a triple star system."

    Damit! OK, so which star do I point my sextant at then if I'm trying to find my latitude? Modern science complicates things so much!

    [Yes this is a joke, for those who don't get astronomy humour.]

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  2. ASCII Picture Mirror by big_groo · · Score: 5, Funny

    Polaris ---> O
    Polaris Ab---->.

    Polaris A --------->o

  3. The North Star: More Than Meets The Eye by LightningBolt! · · Score: 5, Funny

    The North Star: Robots In Disguise

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  4. We're missing the real news here by Jay+L · · Score: 4, Funny

    astronomers have photographed the close companion of Polaris

    Waitaminute. Polaris is GAY?