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The Skeptics Guide #893 - Aug 20 2022

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

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The Stars Are Point Sources of Light

Stars are point sources of light. You zom in as much as you want, you're really not going to see thethe disk, right? That has been true for as long as astronomyh's been around. But now we can zoom in on certain stars and observe some of the disk itself. And i think the number now is 23, 23 stars we have w have actually seen part of the disk, or a little bit of the disk. So it looks pretty much like a blurry slice of carusoaaa ha, ha. It doesn't even look symmetrical.

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