Humans don’t yet possess the technology required to visit neighboring stars, but astronomers can still learn a great deal about them just by looking. The brightness and color of a star can reveal what stage of life it’s in, and even allow scientists to predict what will happen to the star in the future.
Our Sun’s brightness may seem constant but it actually changes from time to time, and those peaks and valleys are common in other stars as well. However, some stars flicker or pulse differently than others, and researchers just discovered a new, particularly intense kind of “pulsator” that nobody had predicted.
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Astronomers stumble upon a new kind of star, and it’s a heavy breather originally appeared on BGR.com on Fri, 2 Aug 2019 at 14:36:07 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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