Mysterious limit on star size revealed: Stars cannot grow heftier than 150 times the Sun's mass, suggest observations from the Hubble Space Telescope. Astronomers have no explanation for this apparent "glass ceiling" but the finding may affect models of how heavier elements such as oxygen and iron are created and delivered through space. Link
monochrom is an art-technology-philosophy group having its seat in Vienna and Zeta Draconis. monochrom is an unpeculiar mixture of proto-aesthetic fringe work, pop attitude, subcultural science, context hacking and political activism. Our mission is conducted everywhere, but first and foremost in culture-archeological digs into the seats (and pockets) of ideology and entertainment. monochrom has existed in this (and almost every other) form since 1993. [more]