[ApplegateRanch]

Should be of interest tio you.

[Faith65]

Bkmk

[knarf]

It reached the end of the universe, turned around, and is coming back ....

It's all perspective

[Organic Panic]

So they are making this claim based on a 1100 year old observation compared to new intrumentation made just 14 years ago?

I think that explains it right there.

[fieldmarshaldj]

‘Tis a ystery.

[mn-bush-man]

Question from the ignorant here: what does CE stand for?

[Fzob]

'If they are real,(ie the measurements)

Key phrase to this article.

[wastedyears]

IT WENT BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMM!!

[RC one]

Polaris is such a quirky north star. Thuban was much more reliable.

[teacherwoes]

Must be the reason for global warming here./s

[Gen.Blather]

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.)

[JoeProBono]

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

[P.O.E.]

Maybe it's headed this way!

[airborne]

Interesting that the comments posted at the link are decidedly right leaning.

Lots of Freeper-like jokes.

[Hot Tabasco]

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.....

[KarlInOhio]

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.

[JRios1968]

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

[nikos1121]

What does C.E. stand for?

[BenLurkin]

What is 137CE?

The star’s storage unit?

[GreenHornet]

I expect to hear the following any time now from Jay Carney: “Not only will Obamacare improve people’s lives by incentivizing people to work less hours, or not work at all, but it makes the North Star shine brighter.”