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The distant ancestors of modern man, who lived about seventy thousand years ago, had the opportunity to contemplate the appearance in the sky simultaneously two luminaries. Such public information shared scientists who published the results of their research in French scientific journal “Science et Vie”.
The second sun was the star of Scholz, which an ancient man could see for short time periods. You can only to guess what primitive Homo Sapiens thought about, observing such amazing phenomenon.
According to French researchers, the duration of this a unique sight depended on the processes arising on the star. The celestial body became visible when on its surface massive eruptions occurred. The Scholz star is red dwarf, named after the discoverer. Ralph-Dieter Scholz discovered the star in 2013, and since then the world scientists are engaged in its active study from Earth.
Currently, the celestial body is rapidly moving away from ours planets heading into the depths of space. Distance from earth to Scholz stars equals nineteen light years, that is, in four times the distance from us to the nearest to us luminaries – Proxima Centauri.
Red dwarfs are known to emit far less light than yellow, to which our sun belongs. In addition, the star of Scholz has a mass equal to only eight percent of the mass of the sun. So man is unlikely to see this celestial body again in all its beauty.
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