Anchoring Starlight: Polaris

Astronomy Polaris is our Polestar, the star to which the axis of the planet points in the northern hemisphere. This is true for our age, but not for all ages. For the precession of the equinoxes (the great circle drawn against the background stars over a period of approximately 26, 000 years) means that at […]

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