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Recent Examples on the Web The image from Hubble shows a nebula (a gas cloud) that happened during one of the larger outbursts from the variable star. — Elizabeth Howell, Forbes, 26 Apr. 2021 According to some models, the luminous blue variable star might have skipped the supernova stage and formed a slow-spinning black hole instead, Allan told Gizmodo. — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 6 July 2020 The ginormous star, a type of luminous blue variable star, shined between 2.5 and 3.5 times brighter than our sun. — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 6 July 2020 Betelgeuse has always been a variable star (though far less variable than at present), and there are a couple of potential causes. — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 14 Feb. 2020 An article on Tuesday about the Vera C. Rubin Observatory misidentified the astronomer who discovered a relationship between the luminosities and periodicities of variable stars. — New York Times, 14 Jan. 2020 On top of these random events, Betelgeuse is also known to be a semi-regular variable star. — The Economist, 11 Jan. 2020 Bright idea Skowron and her colleagues mapped the Milky Way in three dimensions using 2,431 classical Cepheid variable stars. — Nadia Drake, National Geographic, 1 Aug. 2019 The telescope gathered a trove of unprecedented data on the pulsations of variable stars throughout the galaxy. — Quanta Magazine, 10 Mar. 2015 See More

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