Pole Star
noun
the star closest to the N celestial pole at any particular time. At present this is Polaris, but it will eventually be replaced by some other star owing to precession of the earth's axis
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Working through that backlog would take weeks even after the waterway is safe to pass, said Saleem Khan, chief data and analytics officer at maritime-intelligence firm Pole Star Global.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 17, 2026
The name Polaris is taken from the Pole Star, used for navigation by slaves escaping northwards in the US in the 19th Century.
From BBC ● Feb. 12, 2019
This week the Finsler comet is almost opposite the Pole Star in its path across the northern sky toward the Big Dipper.
From Time Magazine Archive
Nita said that he’d even made a deal for salvage rights on the sunken Pole Star, if he could figure out a way to raise her.
From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi
“But Pole Star has almost half its crew staffed with augments.”
From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi
At that time the comet should appear just to the right of the pole star.
From BBC ● Jan. 31, 2023
She was, he said, so “unvarying in her pole star radiance that we have perhaps been lulled into thinking that she might be in some way eternal.”
From Washington Post ● Sep. 12, 2022
“Instead of leading us at the front of the pack, he will now lead us as our guiding pole star as we press forward in the realization of his dream.”
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 28, 2022
Ursa Minor contains the pole star, Polaris, and the asterism known as the Little Dipper.
From Textbooks ● Oct. 13, 2016
On the 30th of September, they still observed the needles of their compasses to vary, but the journal records that it was the pole star which moved, and not the needle.
From Little Masterpieces of Science: Explorers by George Iles
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