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Month: <span>July 2010</span>

Month: July 2010

Adding scripts in GIMP

GIMP is a very powerful image processing program, equivalent to Adobe’s Photoshop, but with the biggest advantage that is totally free (and open source). Apart from its own capabilities someone can add more scripts (.scm files) in the folder: local use: ~/.gimp-2.x/scripts global use: /usr/share/gimp/2.x/scripts [or for Win local use: …

How big a star can be?

It seems that this question has no final answer yet. Although the recent models were claiming that no star bigger than 100-150 solar masses can exist, there is evidence that a star close to 300 solar masses exists in the Large Magellanic Cloud. One star, R136a1 (from the young cluster …