ALSO The North Star is actually three stars!
The big one is 5.4 solar masses and 'uuge, a smaller one (1.39) is where our Jupiter is, and there’s another one (1.26) waay out there, like 80 times farther than Neptune. All that ~400 light years away from us.
Got funny names too, because in 18th century they discovered the existence of the outer one and called them Polaris A and Polaris B. Only to realize 150 years later “oh crap Polaris A is also two stars, gotta call them AA and AB now”
there are sea slugs who absorb chloroplast from plants and use it to photosynthesize (convert sunlight into nutrients), it’s called “kleptoplasty” how friggin cool is that
Maxxie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
Did you know ancient greeks called giraffes “camelopards”? Cause they look kinda like a cross between camels and leopards? neat huh
garbagebagel@lemmy.world 1 month ago
That’s neat as fuck can you tell me something else?
Maxxie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
ALSO The North Star is actually three stars! The big one is 5.4 solar masses and 'uuge, a smaller one (1.39) is where our Jupiter is, and there’s another one (1.26) waay out there, like 80 times farther than Neptune. All that ~400 light years away from us.
Got funny names too, because in 18th century they discovered the existence of the outer one and called them Polaris A and Polaris B. Only to realize 150 years later “oh crap Polaris A is also two stars, gotta call them AA and AB now”
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garbagebagel@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Damn, thinking about space makes me feel ill but you are cool AF, thank you for sharing
Maxxie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
there are sea slugs who absorb chloroplast from plants and use it to photosynthesize (convert sunlight into nutrients), it’s called “kleptoplasty” how friggin cool is that
qaz@lemmy.world 1 month ago
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