Astronomers measure star brightness using the magnitude scale. All the really bright stars we see are magnitude 1 or brighter ...

December opens with Jupiter dropping into the sunset. On the 3rd, Saturn, Venus and Jupiter form a diagonal line with Jupiter in the sun’s afterglow and brilliant Venus almost exactly midway ...

Well, we say "new", but that is debatable: the code is new, but the language in question was announced 57 years ago: the work-in-progress project is a front-end for ALGOL-68, by Oracle staffer ...