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North Star May Be Wasting Away

Posted by Soulskill on from the julius-caesar-wanted-to-go-on-a-diet dept.

sciencehabit writes "The North Star, a celestial beacon to navigators for centuries, may be slowly shrinking, according to a new analysis of more than 160 years of observations. The data suggest that the familiar fixture in the northern sky is shedding an Earth's mass worth of gas each year."

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  1. Re:frosty piss by voltacid · · Score: 0, Redundant

    What an anonymous coward.

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