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Originally Posted by julianh72
It's just a case of a journalist not understanding what they are reading, and then making a complete hash of it when they try to paraphrase it.
The facts in the side box entitled "THE BRIGHTEST STAR SIRIUS" are all factually correct. (They may have been copied from Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sirius )
The following factually-correct statement appears in the fact box:
Sirius is the brightest 'star' in the night sky.
In fact it is a binary system of a white main-sequence star called Sirius A, and a faint white dwarf, Sirius B.
This has been paraphrased in the adjacent body text by erroneously adding one critical word - "because":
Sirius is so bright because it is in fact a binary star system, two stars orbiting each other.
(All of which doesn't detract from the fact that the photos which are the subject of the article are gorgeous!) |
I agree but it is this type of communication that fosters and perpetuates a misunderstanding of science. How many people think there is no gravity in space because the astronauts float in space or that we only use 10% of our brain ... These sorts of things are not difficult to correct during the editing process and makes science more accessible and correct