New Image Sheds Light on North Star’s Mass
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
The Hubble Space Telescope has captured the first image of a cosmic object that has been known but never before seen: a small, faint companion of the North Star, also known as Polaris.
Though the image released Monday may not seem spectacular -- it’s a little blurry blob -- it helped scientists figure out the North Star’s mass: about four times the mass of our sun.
