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Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have uncovered surprising new clues about a hefty, rapidly aging star whose behavior has never been seen before in our Milky Way galaxy. In fact, the star is so weird that astronomers have nicknamed it “Nasty 1,” a play on its catalog name of NaSt1. The star may represent a brief transitory stage in the evolution of extremely massive stars.
First discovered several decades ago, Nasty 1 was identified as a Wolf-Rayet star, a rapidly evolving star that is much more massive than our sun. The star loses its hydrogen-filled outer layers quickly, exposing its super-hot and extremely bright helium-burning core.
But Nasty 1 doesn’t look like a typical Wolf-Rayet star. The astronomers using Hubble had expected to see twin lobes of gas flowing from opposite sides of the star, perhaps similar to those emanating from the massive star Eta Carinae, which is a Wolf-Rayet candidate.
Instead, Hubble revealed a pancake-shaped disk of gas encircling the star. The vast disk is nearly 2 trillion miles wide, and may have formed from an unseen companion star that snacked on the outer envelope of the newly formed Wolf-Rayet. Based on current estimates, the nebula surrounding the stars is just a few thousand years old, and as close as 3,000 light-years from Earth.
It's a lot like Lemmy, but with a few important key differences, most importantly IMO, it has good onboarding and much better UX.
See more details here https://join.piefed.social/features/
It's part of the Fediverse so it shares much of the same content, check it out https://piefed.social/
Performance is also much better in my experience.
Lemmy's backend is very performant, the UI is janky though. Using the lemmy frontend and then an app that just talks to its APIs is night and day.
Piefed is also new, with only about thousand users. Active users are going to be much less than that. It's also written in Python, we'll see how that scales.
Lastly, the official instance is behind cloudflare, so all your login credentials are going to CF before it reaches piefed servers. CF is most likely tracking users too. This is a no-go if you give a shit about privacy. But with a CDN, yes it connects faster.
So ya, kinda. It's too early to tell and also comes with security (MITM) and privacy concern (on the official instance) with the CDN.
It's nice to see Lemmy and their egotistical devs getting some competition though.
More options FTW.
1600 users, 948 monthly active. https://piefed.social/about
Across all instances, about 1500 mau and rising.