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[–] mkwt@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

And just to be clear, Polaris is not actually the "North Star" all the time. North Stardom rotates around on a 26,000 year period, as the earth precesses. That's crazy lightning fast spinning on the time scales we're taking about.