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Forward: It is funny how God keeps telling us that we are DUMB to Hos creation: In Job: Job 26:7, which says, "He spreads out the northern skies over empty space, he suspends the earth over nothing." Job 38:31-32 "Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion? Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? Or canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons?" God is saying, “Hey Job, you think you can keep Pleiades together? Well, I can!”
A team led by Scott Engle of Villanova University in Pennsylvania recalibrated historic measure ments of Polaris by Ptolemy in 137 C.E., the Persian astronomer Al-Sufi in 964 C.E., and others.
They investigated the fluctuations of the star over the course of several years, combing through historical records and utilising the Hubble Space Telescope.
The team found that Polaris is 2.5 times brighter today than in Ptolemy's time, which they say is a remarkable rate of change.