INCREDIBLE: Astronomers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics found that the so-called 'North Star' is actually a triple star system.
Using the Hubble Space Telescope, scientists first photographed the third star that is part of this stellar system.
"The star we observed is so close to Polaris that we needed every last of Hubble's resolution capabilities to view it, "said researcher Nancy Evans.
Until this finding, it was believed that the North Star was only accompanied by another star called 'Polaris', but recently, scientists discovered that the system also includes another star to about 3,200 million miles from Polaris.
By: Francisco Javier Guerrero Martinez
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