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Blue Vampire Star Caught Sucking Red Giant's Gas

Blue Vampire Star Caught Sucking Red Giant's Gas

Astronomers have captured the best-ever image of a star sucking the gas away from its bloated, dying companion.

The mechanics of stellar vampirism, however, proved less dramatic than astronomers anticipated. They expected to see hot gas funneling from a cool red giant star into a hot, dense blue star. Instead they saw mostly nothing.

The binary star system, called SS Leporis, likely uses a lesser-known method to send gas from one star to the other.

“For a long time this system was suspected as a typical example of star vampirism, but it’s more light and friendly than we would have loved to se...

Celebrate the Holidays With Advent Calendars for Web NerdsThe holiday season is upon us and for web nerds that means only one thing — advent tutorials.

Sure, it might be getting colder, possibly even snowing where you are, but the real way a web developer knows that the holidays are here is that 24Ways, the annual advent calendar for web nerds, is out. That means it’s time to learn new tricks, relearn best practices and get a leg up on some of the year’s best ideas in web development.

This year’s 24Ways has a decidedly responsive design slant to it (so far anyway). Developer Jeremy Keith weighs in with a tutorial on how to use conditional loading for...

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