A New North Star?
March 14, 2019 | Ryan W. Gates
As Jump!Star nears its signature event at Symphony in the Flint Hills in 2019, many people are stunned to learn that Polaris (our current North Star) will not be our North Star in about 1,000 years. How is this possible? What will be our new North Star? How do we celebrate this? These are some of the questions Jump!Star seeks to answer. During our recent Jump!Star event at The Volland Store, Jana Grcevich, astrophysicist and co-author of A Vacation Guide to the Solar System, spoke about the Earth's axial precession.
