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Help with this template Comments: edit – history – watch – refresh The photo of the trail from Mira appears to curve. Is that an artifact of the photo mosaic process or is it real? If real, why? 66.196.222.153 (talk) 04:40, 13 March 2008 (UTC) Doug Collins

"Mira was discovered (or at least noted as special for the first time) after a series of observations by the astronomer David Fabricius beginning on August 3, 1596. Observing the planet Mercury, he needed a reference star for comparing positions and picked a previously unremarked third-magnitude star nearby."

On August 3, 1596, Mercury was nowhere near Mira and could not possibly have been involved in its discovery.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.70.216.86 (talk • contribs) 16:32, 15 June 2005

Here: the discovery history.—Preceding unsigned comment added by Illythr (talk • contribs) 08:24, 24 July 2006

[edit] "helium shell" should be "helium core"?

Not my area of expertise, but the clause "fusion of hydrogen continued along a shell surrounding the inert helium shell" strikes me as incorrect; shouldn't that be "inert helium core"? Peter Delmonte (talk) 01:02, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

- changed shell to core; seemed like a typo. --warnthepenguins  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.244.144.141 (talk) 21:32, 25 March 2008 (UTC)