DougMerritt (log😅 = 💧log😄) on Nostr: nprofile1q…ufa4k > We may think of the stars in the sky as fixed And for example, ...
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> We may think of the stars in the sky as fixed
And for example, and rather dramatically, just a couple millennia ago Polaris was not the pole star:
"From around 1700 BC until just after 300 AD, Kochab (Beta Ursae Minoris) and Pherkad (Gamma Ursae Minoris) were twin northern pole stars, though neither was as close to the pole as Polaris is now."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pole_star
> We may think of the stars in the sky as fixed
And for example, and rather dramatically, just a couple millennia ago Polaris was not the pole star:
"From around 1700 BC until just after 300 AD, Kochab (Beta Ursae Minoris) and Pherkad (Gamma Ursae Minoris) were twin northern pole stars, though neither was as close to the pole as Polaris is now."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pole_star