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• garbagebagel@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  That’s neat as fuck can you tell me something else?

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  • Maxxie@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Damn, thinking about space makes me feel ill but you are cool AF, thank you for sharing

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      • ODuffer@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I hope they find more, so there’s a star called AF.

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      • Maxxie@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        thanks for asking ^^

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  • Maxxie@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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

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    • qaz@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Do you have an RSS feed?

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      • Maxxie@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        noo, I used to run one but it’s long gone 😔

        I might start a community or find one I like for post, that’d be fun

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