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Star Ownership: Not What You Think

We’ve started to receive a few e-mails from the International Star Registry saying the usual “name a star after you’re loved one for the holidays.” I just wanted to remind you that while naming a star after your honey bunny is cute and all, and may well make for a romantic gesture, you really ought to know that doing so is, in the eyes of the scientific community, not exactly official.

Oh well… So much for the announcement one day that a meteor that will destroy earth just swung past star Vincenzo-1.

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