More to the North Star Than Meets the Eye 179
__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."
Just Beyond The Capabilities of My 125 ETX (Score:3, Insightful)
they should nickname the mini star, Cooper
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ummm... (Score:4, Insightful)
Hubble (Score:1, Insightful)
Re:Not really "close" to the main star as we know (Score:2, Insightful)
Wanna run that by me again? (Score:2, Insightful)
Stupid bastards.
Hubble is the very best thing Nasa has ever put into orbit around Earth.
Leave it the f**k alone..
"Close" is a relative word... (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Hubble (Score:2, Insightful)
This is what sets us apart from the animals. Animals don't have that sort of ego. But I guess animals don't have the need to try to justify their existance.
Re:Not Informative (Score:3, Insightful)
I think for fun, I'll keep a lookout for someone making this point.