Astronomers just caught a glimpse of a rare, massive star in formation
Astronomers have identified a young star that's already 30 times more massive than our Sun, and it's in our own galaxy, about 11,000 light-years away from Earth. As the young heavyweight continues to collect matter from its parent molecular cloud, researchers hope to observe it reaching 'adulthood', allowing them to better understand how massive stars form in the Universe. "An average star like our Sun is formed over a few million years, whereas massive stars are formed orders of magnitude fas..>> view originalThe Other Steve: What does Wozniak really think of Steve Jobs?
In the 2015 bio-pic Steve Jobs (not the one with Ashton Kutcher. The other one), Steve Wozniak confronts Jobs, saying "you can't write code, you're not an engineer, you're not a designer ... What did you do?"Jobs replies: "I play the orchestra. And you're a good musician."Wozniak and Jobs go way back. They co-founded Apple in 1976 with almost no money - Jobs sold his van and Wozniak his calculator (it was a good one) to start building their first product. Back then, Wozniak was a shy, bearded e..>> view originalVictorian farmer claims to have grown one of biggest truffles in world
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