8/25/09

Mystery of the Epsilon Aurigae Star


The super-bright star, epsilon Aurigae, dims its lights every 27 years puzzles scientist. The star is too bright to be observed with a majority of professional telescopes, so a collaborative project called "Citizen Sky" is created to solve this mystery. The star will be dim during all of 2010. Scientists hypothesize that there is a mysterious companion with the star that causes this phenomena.




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