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fromFuturism
5 days ago

Astronomers Intrigued By Impossible Structure Around Dead Star

A dead star 730 light years away appears to be forming a powerful structure around itself - and despite their best efforts, astronomers aren't sure how. The cosmic corpse, designated RXJ0528+2838, is an incredibly dense stellar remnant known as a white dwarf, with a Sun-like star orbiting around it. This binary arrangement isn't uncommon throughout the universe, but what is strange is the structure surrounding the former body: a highly energetic and luminescent cloud known as a nebula,
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fromHackernoon
5 years ago

Why Every Emoji, Letter, and Symbol You Type Is Basically Just Math | HackerNoon

Character encoding is essential for translating human language into a format that computers can process.
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