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The Mystery of the North Star: Astronomers baffled to find Polaris is getting BRIGHTER
Daily Mail ^
| UPDATED: 16:18 EST, 5 February 2014
| MARK PRIGG
Posted on 02/06/2014 12:11:57 AM PST by ApplegateRanch
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To: Organic Panic
Must be another consequence of Global Warming...
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posted on
02/06/2014 3:37:32 AM PST
by
Tallguy
To: ApplegateRanch
Polaris is a Cepheid variable. It’s been getting dimmer and brighter for a long time. Its various sputterings has suggested that something interestingly unstable is going on. If I recall, it’s large enough (8-12 solar masses) that it could go supernova. But if it did, we won’t know about it for 600 years. So, whatever we’re seeing now is what it was doing 600 years ago. (Yawn...old news.)
To: DannyTN
Very ysterious! Very ysterious indeed!
To: ApplegateRanch
The North Star Polaris Is Getting Brighter by Nola Taylor Redd, SPACE.com Contributor | January 28, 2014 06:41am ET Photo of Polaris, the North Star and close-up This long-exposure photo (left) shows how the North Star, Polaris, stays fixed in the night sky as other stars appear to move during the night due to Earth's rotation. At right, a close-up of the multi-star Polaris system. Credit: Left image: M. Menefee; Right: N. Carboni; Assembly: D. Majaess
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posted on
02/06/2014 3:48:22 AM PST
by
JoeProBono
(SOME IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED;-{)
To: ApplegateRanch
Maybe it's headed this way!
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posted on
02/06/2014 3:50:09 AM PST
by
P.O.E.
(Pray for America)
To: mn-bush-man
CE stand for Common Era, a substitute for “Anno Domini,” The Year of our Lord. It is used by miscreants who are offended by the terms AD and BC. It is still based on the birth of the Baby Jesus.
To: fieldmarshaldj
Tis a ystery. 'Tis an ystery.
Remember that the indefinite article changes to "an" before vowels!
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posted on
02/06/2014 4:21:41 AM PST
by
exDemMom
(Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
To: exDemMom
I got yer dangling participle right ‘ere !
To: JoeProBono
Nice picture. I am glad that star motion is too slow to see; I’m getting dizzy just looking at the pic.
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posted on
02/06/2014 4:23:56 AM PST
by
exDemMom
(Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
To: exDemMom
aybe the REAL 'ystery' is: "OMG! What happened to the 'M'?"
:P
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posted on
02/06/2014 4:24:43 AM PST
by
ZinGirl
(kids in college....can't afford a tagline right now)
To: ApplegateRanch
Interesting that the comments posted at the link are decidedly right leaning.
Lots of Freeper-like jokes.
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posted on
02/06/2014 4:30:12 AM PST
by
airborne
(MY HEROES DON'T WEAR CAPES. MY HEROES WEAR DOG TAGS ! ! !)
To: ApplegateRanch
Astronomers have discovered that Polaris, the north star, is getting brighter.
My guess is that it's actually a headlight..........
Sorry but no, I am not an astrophysicist.....
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posted on
02/06/2014 4:33:14 AM PST
by
Hot Tabasco
(I think I've lost my mojo.....)
To: exDemMom
Well just remember, the stars aren't in motion, we are.
You may puke now, if you like.
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posted on
02/06/2014 4:35:29 AM PST
by
katana
(Just my opinions)
To: Ethan Clive Osgoode
I like to think of CE as Christian Era. :)
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posted on
02/06/2014 4:52:27 AM PST
by
Library Lady
(When little men cast long shadows, the day is almost ended. – Paul Harvey)
To: exDemMom
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posted on
02/06/2014 4:55:49 AM PST
by
JoeProBono
(SOME IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED;-{)
To: ApplegateRanch
Team found that Polaris is 2.5 times brighter today than in 137CE Funny number. It is the amount of one magnitude difference in modern notation. Ptolemy subdivided his stars into 15 brightness levels, so it is more precise than just by single magnitudes.
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posted on
02/06/2014 5:04:05 AM PST
by
KarlInOhio
(Republican amnesty supporters don't care whether their own homes are called mansions or haciendas.)
To: ApplegateRanch
Thuban? Is that some new car company?
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posted on
02/06/2014 5:10:34 AM PST
by
McGruff
(I'm a Conservative. Not necessarily a Republican.)
To: ApplegateRanch
Astronomers have discovered that Polaris, the north star, is getting brighter. They say the star has suddenly reversed two decades of dimming. It is expanding at more than 100 times the rate they expected - and nobody is sure why.Two theories:
or
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posted on
02/06/2014 5:38:39 AM PST
by
JRios1968
(I'm guttery and trashy, with a hint of lemon. - Laz)
To: ApplegateRanch
if it is after 1 AD. I refer to it as the Christian Era.
To: ApplegateRanch
Yes, Vega became tarnished by its oxidative nature and generally cast a poor reflection on Chevy. Not to worry however, Thuban will come back around again in a little over 18,000 years and all will be well again.
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posted on
02/06/2014 6:01:59 AM PST
by
RC one
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