It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world to the other.
— Plato
(May 16) - Astronomers are baffled after finding an exotic type of star called a pulsar apparently locked in an elongated orbit around a star much like the sun -- an arrangement defying what had been known about such objects.
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http://news.aol.com/story/_a/astronomers-baffled-by-bizarre-star/2008051...
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