Star types

Apache Pulsar Adoption Skyrockets and Pulsar Summit 2021 Takes Off This Week

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Monday, June 14, 2021
Radio astronomy, Computing, Star types, Pulsar, Apache, Technology, States of the United States

SAN FRANCISCO, June 14, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- StreamNative, a cloud-native messaging and event streaming company powered by Apache Pulsar, announced today the release of the Apache Pulsar User Survey Report 2021 .

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  • SAN FRANCISCO, June 14, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- StreamNative, a cloud-native messaging and event streaming company powered by Apache Pulsar, announced today the release of the Apache Pulsar User Survey Report 2021 .
  • The Apache Pulsar User Survey 2021 release coincides with the Pulsar Summit Virtual North America 2021, June 16-17th.
  • The release of the Apache Pulsar User Survey 2021 coincides with the Pulsar Virtual Summit North America 2021 .
  • Apache Pulsar adoption has been rapid over the past few years and recently, Apache Pulsar surpassed Apache Kafka in the Monthly Active Contributors .

NASA Missions Unmask Magnetar Eruptions in Nearby Galaxies

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Wednesday, January 13, 2021
Astronomy, Physical sciences, Natural sciences, Star types, Gamma-ray bursts, Space telescopes, Astrophysics, Magnetar, InterPlanetary Network, Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, Gamma ray, Astrophysical X-ray source

Now, multiple international science teams conclude that the blast came from a supermagnetized stellar remnant known as a magnetar located in a neighboring galaxy.

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  • Now, multiple international science teams conclude that the blast came from a supermagnetized stellar remnant known as a magnetar located in a neighboring galaxy.
  • "The April 15 event is a game changer because we found that the burst almost certainly lies within the disk of the nearby galaxy NGC 253."
  • Rarely, magnetars produce enormous eruptions called giant flares that produce gamma rays, the highest-energy form of light.
  • The Fermi, Swift, Wind, Mars Odyssey and INTEGRAL missions all participate in a GRB-locating system called the InterPlanetary Network (IPN) .

Apache Pulsar Summit Asia: A Deep Dive Into the Tech & Trends Driving Pulsar Adoption

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Wednesday, November 25, 2020
Companies of China, Cloud infrastructure, Companies, Computing, Star types, RSS, Tencent, Pulsar, Cloud computing, Message queue

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 25, 2020 /PRNewswire/ --StreamNative, a cloud-native event streaming company powered by Apache Pulsar, announced more details today on the first-ever Pulsar Summit Asia 2020 .

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  • SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 25, 2020 /PRNewswire/ --StreamNative, a cloud-native event streaming company powered by Apache Pulsar, announced more details today on the first-ever Pulsar Summit Asia 2020 .
  • Running Apache Pulsar on Tencent Cloud: New Challenges, Discussion, Practice(Mandarin)- In this talk, Lin Lin, senior engineer of Tencent Cloud will address how Pulsar helps solve challenges with message queues on Tencent Cloud.
  • Apache Pulsar is a cloud-native, distributed messaging and streaming platform that manages hundreds of billions of events per day.
  • StreamNative , founded by the original developers of Apache Pulsar and Apache BookKeeper, offers managed Pulsar service for cloud offering and StreamNative Platform for on-premise offerings and related commercial support.

Pulsar Adoption Continues & Free 'Pulsar as a Service' Launches

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Tuesday, October 27, 2020
Data security, Proprietary software, Splunk, System administration, Star types, Computing, Radio astronomy, Software, Pulsar, Creamware, Cloud computing, Information technology management

In fact, at last week's Splunk annual conference, conf20 , Splunk CPO Sendur Sellakumar talked about Splunk's adoption of Apache Pulsar for the Splunk DSP (Data Stream Processor).

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  • In fact, at last week's Splunk annual conference, conf20 , Splunk CPO Sendur Sellakumar talked about Splunk's adoption of Apache Pulsar for the Splunk DSP (Data Stream Processor).
  • The free offering will allow users to quickly start exploring Pulsar and the ability to run a small scale production Pulsar in just a few clicks.
  • "When we launched StreamNative Cloud, we wanted to remove barriers to adoption for Pulsar.
  • StreamNative's new Free Cloud Offeringis just another way that StreamNative is helping to support Pulsar adoption.

NASA Missions Spy First Possible 'Survivor' Planet Hugging White Dwarf Star

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Wednesday, September 16, 2020
Astronomy, Space science, Stellar astronomy, Star types, White dwarf, Planet, Dwarf star, STAR, Jupiter, Dwarf planet

The Jupiter-size object, called WD 1856 b, is about seven times larger than the white dwarf , named WD 1856+534.

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  • The Jupiter-size object, called WD 1856 b, is about seven times larger than the white dwarf , named WD 1856+534.
  • When a Sun-like star runs out of fuel, it swells up to hundreds to thousands of times its original size, forming a cooler red giant star.
  • Vanderburg and his colleagues estimate the possible planet must have originated at least 50 times farther away from its present location.
  • The team suggests several scenarios that could have nudged WD 1856 b onto an elliptical path around the white dwarf.

Stellar Pulsations Distribute Key Ingredient for Life

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Tuesday, August 4, 2020
Mira variable, Stellar wind, Astronomy, Stars, Stellar astronomy, Semiregular variable stars, Star types

COLUMBIA, Md., Aug. 4, 2020 /PRNewswire/ --As Carl Sagan famously said, "We're made of star stuff" but how do stars distribute their essential "stuff" for life into space?

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  • COLUMBIA, Md., Aug. 4, 2020 /PRNewswire/ --As Carl Sagan famously said, "We're made of star stuff" but how do stars distribute their essential "stuff" for life into space?
  • But it must be forced into space for it to become a building block of life as we know it.
  • SOFIA found that some Mira stars, late-stage red giants with especially powerful pulsations, can drive strong stellar winds that eject carbon-rich gas and dust out into interstellar space.
  • On the other hand, stars with much weaker pulsations called semiregular stars, can't push the wind out as effectively.

The Rise of Apache Pulsar and the First-Ever Pulsar Summit

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Thursday, June 11, 2020
Proprietary software, Data security, Splunk, System administration, Star types, Software, Pulsar, Creamware, Computing, Information technology management

SAN FRANCISCO, June 11, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- StreamNative, a cloud-native event streaming company powered by Apache Pulsar, announced more details today on the first-ever Pulsar Summit Virtual Conference 2020 .

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  • SAN FRANCISCO, June 11, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- StreamNative, a cloud-native event streaming company powered by Apache Pulsar, announced more details today on the first-ever Pulsar Summit Virtual Conference 2020 .
  • Find out why Splunk adopted Apache Pulsar for both existing use cases and new cloud-native service offerings, such as the Splunk Data Stream Processor (DSP).
  • Getting Pulsar Spinning: How Instructure Decided On and Deployed Apache Pulsar in Under a Year, by Addison Higham.
  • StreamNative , founded by the original developers of Apache Pulsar and Apache BookKeeper, offers managed Pulsar service for cloud offering and StreamNative Platform for on-premise offerings and related commercial support.

Red Giant Debuts Tutorial on How to Create a Forcefield

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Thursday, April 2, 2020
Star types, Red Giant, Giant

Now out on YouTube, Aharon Rabinowitz showcases his process of developing this effect using tools from Red Giant Complete .

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  • Now out on YouTube, Aharon Rabinowitz showcases his process of developing this effect using tools from Red Giant Complete .
  • Working in After Effects, he pulls in plugins from Red Giant Complete to create particles emitting from his hands while adding various layers to enhance the effect.
  • Red Giant recently announced brand new purchasing options on Red Giant Complete, which is now available as a monthly subscription.
  • Members of the media are invited to review Red Giant Complete as well as any individual tools or product suites from Red Giant.

Strap in and Blast off at Springbok Casino

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Monday, December 23, 2019
Casino, Gaming, Entertainment, Online, Stellar astronomy, Star types, Astronomy, Articles, Neutron stars, Pulsar, Radio astronomy, Realtime Gaming, Stratosphere Las Vegas, Casino, Springbok, Strat

Players at South Africas favourite online casino, Springbok Casino , are being advised to buckle up as they blast off into the stratosphere in Realtime Gamings latest slot release, Pulsar.

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  • Players at South Africas favourite online casino, Springbok Casino , are being advised to buckle up as they blast off into the stratosphere in Realtime Gamings latest slot release, Pulsar.
  • Once the Neutron Star explodes it destroys all symbols in its blast radius and replaces them with other randomly selected symbols.
  • Pulsar will blast off from Springbok Casino on 22 January and you can watch a preview of the game here .
  • Springbok Casino Manager, Daniel Van Wyke, said: Pulsar is an intergalactic thrill ride that requires players to strap themselves in and blast off to the big win stratosphere.

Hypergiant Industries Launches Eos Bioreactor: A Prototype Bioreactor for Commercial and Personal Carbon Sequestration

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Tuesday, September 17, 2019
Chemical compounds, Physical sciences, Natural sciences, Carbon capture and sequestration, Star types, Biochemical engineering, Hypergiant, Ben Lamm, Carbon capture and storage, Bioreactor, Carbon dioxide

"Our goal at Hypergiant Industries is to use the world's best technologies to solve the world's biggest problems.

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  • "Our goal at Hypergiant Industries is to use the world's best technologies to solve the world's biggest problems.
  • Excess carbon in our atmosphere is driving a number of massive catastrophes for our planet and pushing us to get off planet and colonize space," said Hypergiant Industries CEO and founder, Ben Lamm.
  • When it comes to CO2 consumption, algae is already one of nature's most efficient tools for carbon capture and sequestration.
  • Later this year, Hypergiant Industries plans to release blueprints for the Eos Bioreactor to the online maker community.