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Recent Examples on the Web 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, "How Could a Massive Star Just Vanish Without a Trace?," 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, "How Could a Massive Star Just Vanish Without a Trace?," 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, "New image shows Betelgeuse isn’t dimming evenly," 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, "Corrections: Jan. 15, 2020," 14 Jan. 2020 On top of these random events, Betelgeuse is also known to be a semi-regular variable star. — The Economist, "Stellar evolution Might there soon be a supernova near Earth?," 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, "The Milky Way is warped around the edges, new star map confirms," 1 Aug. 2019 The telescope gathered a trove of unprecedented data on the pulsations of variable stars throughout the galaxy. — Quanta Magazine, "Strange Stars Pulse to the Golden Mean," 10 Mar. 2015 The scientists from the Chinese Academy of Sciences used this method to create a three-dimensional map of over a thousand Cepheid variable stars in our galaxy, from the innermost core to the outer edges. — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, "Astronomers Discover the Milky Way Is More Twisted and Warped Than We Thought," 5 Feb. 2019

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