Faint star orbiting the Big Dipper's Alcor discovered

Thursday, December 10, 2009 - 01:21 in Astronomy & Space

New observations of Alcor, one of the stars that makes the constellation known as the Big Dipper's, have uncovered a smaller companion star named Alcor B. Project 1640 was able to show that the two stars moved together using "common parallactic motion."

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