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Recent Examples of variable star
Photograph: Alamy Hubble in turn wrote up his variable star measurements and convinced everyone that Andromeda was indeed a separate galaxy.
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WIRED, 12 Nov. 2023
So a variable star is one that changes its brightness over time in a regular cycle.
—Lucy Evans, Scientific American, 22 June 2023
The Hubble Space Telescope captured a stunning new image of the bright variable star V 372 Orionis and a companion star.
—Julia Musto, Fox News, 28 Jan. 2023
The variable star usually cycles from dim to bright over some 420 days, so astronomers say there’s still more to the mystery.
—Eric Betz, Discover Magazine, 14 Dec. 2020
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WIRED, 12 Nov. 2023
So a variable star is one that changes its brightness over time in a regular cycle.
—Lucy Evans, Scientific American, 22 June 2023
The Hubble Space Telescope captured a stunning new image of the bright variable star V 372 Orionis and a companion star.
—Julia Musto, Fox News, 28 Jan. 2023
The variable star usually cycles from dim to bright over some 420 days, so astronomers say there’s still more to the mystery.
—Eric Betz, Discover Magazine, 14 Dec. 2020
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for variable star
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The group calculated that approximately one in three gravitational waves of the right sort (neutron star collisions work best since their mergers last longer than black hole mergers) would make the bar ring with one quantum unit of energy.Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 30 Oct. 2024
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These systems are made up of the black hole and a secondary object like a star, much denser neutron star, or another black hole.Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 23 Oct. 2024
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So far, the guiding lights to find the comet have been the bright planet Venus and the bright red star Arcturus.Jamie Carter, Forbes, 27 Oct. 2024
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The flag of North Korea features a red star within a white circle set against a wide red stripe, bordered by thinner white and blue stripes.Kimmy Yam, NBC News, 17 Oct. 2024
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An eye-opening new Hubble image shows the binary star system R Aquarii having a cosmic freakout.Amanda Kooser, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2024
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There are many theories of gravity out there, and many interpretations of wide binary star data.Big Think, Big Think, 24 June 2024
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Leave tradition behind and commit to a modern aesthetic with these pretty hanging sphere lights that look like giant stars.Mia Meltzer, Rolling Stone, 24 Oct. 2024
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Nunes checks the box as the giant star, and there is an argument for Pena to come up to 145 to challenge her.Brian Mazique, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2024
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Scientists are hoping to study the nova to discover what happens when the material is blasted from the white dwarf and distributed into neighboring galaxies, Boyd said.Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 31 Oct. 2024
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Such white dwarf stars are the hot, glowing stellar cores left behind when dying sunlike stars blow off their outer layers.Tom Metcalfe, Scientific American, 31 Oct. 2024
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Do not conscript them into your game of high-speed moving variables.James Parker, The Atlantic, 5 Nov. 2024
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The 2020 election showed that there were aspects of Trump’s support that could not be fully accounted for with the demographic variables that pollsters had come to rely on.Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 31 Oct. 2024
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“Variable star.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/variable%20star. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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