The v13 release is not just a release either, it is also our official announcement of participation in the annual #hacktoberfest. 💻🥨
We know that we're a few days late to the party, but v13 had to get ready before. 😉
This year, the fest is opt-in for projects and we definitely want to opt into taking part in this great event! If you ever thought about starting coding or giving back to your favourite open source repositories, now is the time! Head over to the hacktoberfest website to learn more about it.
We already prepared some issues on our repositories and aim towards opening more issues for starters, but feel free to begin a hunt for improvements and fixes by yourself!
🪐 Deep in the constellation Draco lies the pulsar PSR J2222−0137, a unique spinning neutron star about 900 light-years from Earth that forms a binary system with a faint white dwarf. PSR J2222−0137 spins once every 33 milliseconds, and its partner is one of the coolest known white dwarfs, so cold that its surface may be made of crystallized oxygen—offering a rare glimpse of two extreme stellar remnants circling each other in quiet cosmic partnership. ✨
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🪐 The star AR Scorpii, located about 380 light-years away in the constellation Scorpius, is an unusual binary system where a rapidly spinning white dwarf blasts powerful beams of energy at its red dwarf companion. Unlike typical stars, AR Scorpii pulses in visible light and radio waves every two minutes as its magnetic field accelerates particles, making it the first known "white dwarf pulsar" in our galaxy. ✨
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🪐 The star VFTS 352, located in the Tarantula Nebula about 160,000 light-years away, is actually two massive stars orbiting each other so closely that their outer layers touch—creating a rare "overcontact binary." This unusual system is on the verge of merging, and both stars are so hot and bright that their shared atmosphere fuses them together, making VFTS 352 one of the most extreme examples of stellar partnership ever found. ✨
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🪐 The exoplanet Kepler-16b orbits not one, but two stars, forming a real-life counterpart to a Tatooine-like world in the constellation Cygnus. This Saturn-sized planet experiences double sunrises and sunsets as it circles both its orange and red dwarf hosts, creating a celestial theater found nowhere in our own solar system. ✨
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