{"id":2753,"date":"2023-02-06T03:36:37","date_gmt":"2023-02-05T22:06:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=2753"},"modified":"2025-03-26T00:04:51","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T18:34:51","slug":"what-is-north-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-north-star\/","title":{"rendered":"What is North Star?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About North Star:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The North Star is also known as Pole Star.<\/li>\n<li>It is a very bright star \u2014 around 2,500 times <strong>more luminous than the Sun.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is part of the constellation <strong>Ursa Minor<\/strong> and is around 323 light years away from the Earth.<\/li>\n<li>The Northstar is less than 1\u00b0 away from the north celestial pole, almost in direct line with the Earth\u2019s rotational axis.<\/li>\n<li>It appears to sit motionless in the northern sky, with all the other stars appearing to rotate around it.<\/li>\n<li>Its position and brightness have allowed humans to <strong>use it for navigation<\/strong> since late antiquity.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The elevation of the star above the horizon gives the <strong>approximate latitude of the observer.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Upon crossing the equator to the south, however, the North Star is lost over the horizon and hence stops being a useful navigational aid.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>What is Ursa Minor?<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>It is one of the 48 constellations identified by the <strong>Greek astronomer Ptolemy<\/strong> in the second century.<\/li>\n<li>It is also called the Little Bear.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is a Latitude?<\/h3>\n<p>Latitude is a measurement on a globe or map of location north or south of the Equator.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/this-word-means-north-star-8426034\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>This Word Means: North star<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Star is part of the constellation Ursa Minor and is around 323 light years away from the Earth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2754,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2753","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}