That is a quintuple system, but "not the answer". So it may be the Earth's southern pole in 7k yrs. and pointed to a quintuple system. Or am I too much of a boreal-centric geocentrist?

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"The Sun, with all the planets revolving around it, and depending on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as though it had nothing else in the universe to do..." Author: Galileo supposedly.

If Mizar, and Delta Velorum are quintuple stars I am drawn irresistably to Sigma Orionis - 5 stars and 18 Jupiter sized planets...

So the Delta Velorum system is a quintuple, but not the answer. How 'bout Gamma Velorum, also quintuple?

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Lighten up! This is a stellar board! Author: duh.

"The Sun, with all the planets revolving around it, and depending on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as though it had nothing else in the universe to do..." Author: Galileo supposedly.

That's the one!

You're up ozark1

OK

Something easy...

Which star is the ultimate demonstration of a German engineer's greatest machine? (The engineer could definitely organise a p*** up in a brewery)

The pole star will be in Orion, or does the Hunter start thowing spears? It was too polemic for me.

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Lighten up! This is a stellar board! Author: duh.

"The Sun, with all the planets revolving around it, and depending on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as though it had nothing else in the universe to do..." Author: Galileo supposedly.

Easy huh? Benz and Diesel come to mind, but not an associated star, unless it is the Texaco Star (nevermind, that's gone).

A brewery might allow the star Gomeisa (beta CMi), meaning "bleary eyed".

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Lighten up! This is a stellar board! Author: duh.

"The Sun, with all the planets revolving around it, and depending on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as though it had nothing else in the universe to do..." Author: Galileo supposedly.

Not Benz, not Diesel.

Before this guy, brewing was seasonal...

I believe a German invented refrigeration.

[Added: I did Google and got Karl Linde.....Ah...the Linde Star (my wife wears one)!!!]

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Lighten up! This is a stellar board! Author: duh.

"The Sun, with all the planets revolving around it, and depending on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as though it had nothing else in the universe to do..." Author: Galileo supposedly.

So now where is the biggest fridge in the known universe....

It is a nebula that begins with a "B", but not beer or brewery. Somehow its expansion dropped the temp. to below average, though I don't understand it.

Nuts, I had to look it up.... the Boomerang. Did this German live in Australia? [Or is there now a colder region?]

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Lighten up! This is a stellar board! Author: duh.

"The Sun, with all the planets revolving around it, and depending on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as though it had nothing else in the universe to do..." Author: Galileo supposedly.

Correct, the perfect place to store your tinnies.

The Boomerang nebula is the only known place in the universe colder than the CMB. Its an example of the Joule Free Expansion effect - the solar wind is 40 times more energetic than the radiation emitted by the star. The temperature is a chilly 1.2 K.

Your turn

It was announced today that Spitzer obtained atmospheric spectra of two hot Jupiters. Although there are over 200 exoplanets known, why will Spitzer not be busy doing others? I would like a number with this, too.

I should read the thread to see if it was mentioned, but I am rushed and don't mind doing an easy one this time.


[Added: Bonus question: What is the reasoning to my signature (now that I've fixed it)?]

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Lighten up! This is a stellar board! Author: duh.

"The Sun, with all the planets revolving around it, and depending on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as though it had nothing else in the universe to do..." Author: Galileo supposedly.

Because of a shortage of candidates for the secondary eclipse technique? From the press release:

Of the approximately 200 known exoplanets, 14 are transiting. At least three of these in addition to HD 209458b and HD 189733b are candidates for obtaining spectra.

Either your spinning cake pan (or whatever slitted thing you spun ) or the look at a white sheet of paper in sunlight.

Yep! Your turn.

Spinmiesters we are, S.A.D. but true [only the paper plate survived. ] SAD, however, only helps verify that it is white, not why it is white (or why I think it is).

But what puts the white in white paper, and why is extraterrestrial sunlight even whiter, at least IMO? [answer not required]

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Lighten up! This is a stellar board! Author: duh.

"The Sun, with all the planets revolving around it, and depending on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as though it had nothing else in the universe to do..." Author: Galileo supposedly.

It is sounding like Leo is the guy. The ladies would be Virgo and, perhaps, Ursa Major. [The Hebrew version has the mother bear with three cubs, none stars from Chicago. ] I don't know the third, but this bludgeoning might help get this thing going.

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Lighten up! This is a stellar board! Author: duh.

"The Sun, with all the planets revolving around it, and depending on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as though it had nothing else in the universe to do..." Author: Galileo supposedly.

Hmm. So close. "A lot of women" could easily be the Pleides, the Seven Sisters, which also includes their parents Atlas and Pleione. So, that's one man in the first two, but then I get stumped with "those three"

PS: Sure, Taurus, the bull. Hmmm, there are also the Hyades, sisters to the Pleides, and their brother Hyas. Does that do it?