- Algol - Wikipedia
Algol is a three-star system, consisting of Beta Persei Aa1, Aa2, and Ab – in which the hot luminous primary β Persei Aa1 and the larger, but cooler and fainter, β Persei Aa2 regularly pass in front of each other, causing eclipses
- Algol the Demon Star, named for its strange behavior - EarthSky
The star name Algol comes from an Arabic word meaning the Demon’s Head or, literally the Ghoul It represents the terrifying snaky head of the Medusa monster
- Meet Algol, the Demon Star - Sky Telescope
If you need a touch of trick-or-treat in the sky this season — or anytime — seek out Algol, a bright star in the constellation Perseus
- ALGOL | Programming, Syntax Compiler | Britannica
ALGOL, computer programming language designed by an international committee of the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM), led by Alan J Perlis of Carnegie Mellon University, during 1958–60 for publishing algorithms, as well as for doing computations
- Algol (Beta Persei): Star System, Facts, Name, Location . . . - Star Facts
Algol, Beta Persei (β Per) is a triple star system located in the constellation Perseus Commonly known as the Demon Star, it is one of the best-known variable stars in the sky and a prototype for a class of eclipsing variable stars known as Algol variables
- A history of star Algol, the winking Demon Star in Perseus
Ask any astronomer to name the most famous variable star in the sky and many will say Algol, the eclipsing binary in Perseus whose variations were first reported in 1670 by the Italian astronomer Geminiano Montanari
- The ALGOL Programming Language - University of Michigan
ALGOL (ALGOrithmic Language) is one of several high level languages designed specifically for programming scientific computations It started out in the late 1950's, first formalized in a report titled ALGOL 58, and then progressed through reports ALGOL 60, and ALGOL 68
- Algol - University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
ALGOL (Beta Persei) Surely one of the most remarkable stars of the sky and appropriately one of the most famed, Algol is the second magnitude Beta star of Perseus, the great mythological hero who rescued Andromeda from Cetus the Sea Monster
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