According to a legend, more than two centuries ago, a famous Paris astronomer used to stand on one of the Seine bridges on nights when the variable star Algol was in eclipse, to point out this ...

that Algol has many companion stars which have not been detected from earlier observations. The results have been published in The Astrophysical Journal. What is Algol? Algol is an eclipsing binary, ...

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Ok, you caught us. It certainly isn’t going to be the year of Algol. When you think of “old” programming languages, you usually think of FORTRAN and COBOL. You should also think of LISP. But only a ...

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Dr. Lauri Jetsu from the University of Helsinki has analysed observations of Algol. He argues that Algol has many companion stars which have not been detected from earlier observations. Algol is an ...

While children dress up as ghosts and goblins for halloween and get their bags and orange plastic pumpkins filled with candy, there's a ghoul in the night sky above and it's called Algol, the Demon ...

Algol makes up one of the "eyes" of Medusa's head that Perseus carries. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Breaking space news, the ...

Dr. Lauri Jetsu from the University of Helsinki has analysed observations of Algol. He argues that Algol has many companion stars which have not been detected from earlier observations. The results ...