You’ve heard of the “pointer” stars of the Big Dipper? They point to the North Star. You can also use them to find the star Capella, aka the Goat Star. Source: https://earthsky.org/tonight/big-dipper-bowl-points-to-bright-star-capella…
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Quantum Computer Made From Photons Achieves New Record
Slashdot reader hackingbear shared this article from Scientific American: In the race to create a quantum computer that can outperform a classical one, a method using particles of light (photons) has taken a promising step forward. Jian-Wei Pan and Chao-Yang Lu, both at the University of Science and Technology of China, and their colleagues improved a quantum computing technique called boson…
Watch Capella flashing red and green
A bright star twinkling with red and green flashes, low in the northeastern sky on October evenings, is probably Capella. Source: https://earthsky.org/tonight/what-star-in-the-northeast-flashes-red-and-green…