Ovuca - Northern Lights – α Dubhe

  On 8/27/2021 at 11:59 AM, NewSchoolScience said:

Northern Lights ζ Mizar out now.  Aleksi likes a spot of shimmer reverb, innit.

 

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Track 6 on this is rather beautiful 

Aleksi gets star nerd and includes Alcor in the ζ with Mizar cuz it’s a binary star (that actually includes 6 stars in the system) 

https://earthsky.org/brightest-stars/mizar-and-alcor-the-horse-and-rider/

“… in 1889, an instrument called a spectroscope revealed that Mizar’s brighter telescopic component consisted of two stars – making Mizar the first binary star ever discovered by spectroscopic means. 

At a later date, Mizar’s dimmer telescopic component also showed itself to be a spectroscopic binary, meaning that Mizar consists of two sets of binaries – making it a quadruple star. 

As for Alcor, it was long believed that Mizar and Alcor were not gravitationally bound and did not form a true binary star system. In 2009, though, two groups of astronomers independently reported that Alcor actually is itself a binary, consisting of Alcor A and Alcor B. Astronomers now believe that the Alcor binary system is gravitationally bound to the Mizar quadruple system – making six stars in all, where we see only two with the eye.“

  On 9/12/2021 at 8:39 PM, hayhook said:

“… in 1889, an instrument called a spectroscope revealed that Mizar’s brighter telescopic component consisted of two stars – making Mizar the first binary star ever discovered by spectroscopic means. 

At a later date, Mizar’s dimmer telescopic component also showed itself to be a spectroscopic binary, meaning that Mizar consists of two sets of binaries – making it a quadruple star. 

As for Alcor, it was long believed that Mizar and Alcor were not gravitationally bound and did not form a true binary star system. In 2009, though, two groups of astronomers independently reported that Alcor actually is itself a binary, consisting of Alcor A and Alcor B. Astronomers now believe that the Alcor binary system is gravitationally bound to the Mizar quadruple system – making six stars in all, where we see only two with the eye.“

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Does this mean we're going to get not one, not two, not four but six ζ releases?  I want MOAR!

Sensational.