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This variable star is also located 250 light-years from Earth, but is sadly lost from view in the glare of the sun during the summer months.
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Anthony Wood,
Space.com,
29 June 2026
Mroz counters, however, that none of those cases are actual microlensing events and instead the mere fluctuations of ordinary variable stars.
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Jonathan O'Callaghan,
Scientific American,
4 June 2026
Bradley Schaefer, an astronomer at Louisiana State University, focuses on cataclysmic variable stars, objects that vary in brightness over time due to some type of major turmoil.
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Liz Kruesi,
Quanta Magazine,
2 Feb. 2026
Many of these alerts will be triggered by variable stars, which cyclically change in brightness.
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IEEE Spectrum,
23 June 2025
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Anthony Wood,
Space.com,
29 June 2026
Mroz counters, however, that none of those cases are actual microlensing events and instead the mere fluctuations of ordinary variable stars.
—
Jonathan O'Callaghan,
Scientific American,
4 June 2026
Bradley Schaefer, an astronomer at Louisiana State University, focuses on cataclysmic variable stars, objects that vary in brightness over time due to some type of major turmoil.
—
Liz Kruesi,
Quanta Magazine,
2 Feb. 2026
Many of these alerts will be triggered by variable stars, which cyclically change in brightness.
—
IEEE Spectrum,
23 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for variable star
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When this phenomenon happens, all the matter in the neutron star fuses into one big atom, with a density of about a million billion g/cc.
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Hopefully, this will help determine whether they’re sparked by an eruption from a single neutron star, or when two of these tiny but massive bodies collide.
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The lunar disk will appear to draw closer to the red light of Antares as the pair track a low arc over the southern horizon, before finally setting at sunrise on May 31, with the red star having transitioned to the top of the silver moon.
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Instead, Lohan put her right hand in the shot, showing off a bubble bath pink natural nail polish as well as a small red star tattoo.
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Then in the future, when the binary star component enters the red giant phase, long after the outer star has become a compact white dwarf, the mass transfer could begin again in the opposite direction, with matter falling onto the surface of the white dwarf.
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Granted, this series has moving parts beyond its binary stars.
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What immediately stood out about WD 1856 b was how close its orbit is to its white dwarf host.
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The planet either warmed up while engulfed during the red giant phase, or began heating as gravity pulled it closer to the resultant white dwarf.
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For corporate and investor decision-makers the variable that now dominates AI infrastructure economics is not model performance or chip cost curves.
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But consumer demand is the big variable impacting companies’ gross margin, Sole noted.
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These small stars also burn cooler and slower than our Sun (let alone a giant star), which means that intelligent, technology-using life has more time to potentially evolve and start sending out radio messages.
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However, in the nearby Andromeda galaxy, a giant star seems to have taken a very different path.
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“Variable star.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/variable%20star. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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