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Many of these alerts will be triggered by variable stars, which cyclically change in brightness.
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IEEE Spectrum, 23 June 2025
After weeks, months and years of observations, astronomers will have a time-lapse record revealing anything that explodes, flashes or moves – such as supernovas, variable stars or asteroids.
—Samantha Thompson, Space.com, 7 July 2025
Among the supernovas in the data will be other transient events such as variable stars and kilonovas, the violent collision between extreme dense stellar remnants called neutron stars.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 27 Jan. 2025
In particular, Leavitt would scrutinize images of the Small and Large Magellanic Clouds, and had identified 1,800 variable stars within them.
—Keith Cooper, Space.com, 17 Jan. 2025
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IEEE Spectrum, 23 June 2025
After weeks, months and years of observations, astronomers will have a time-lapse record revealing anything that explodes, flashes or moves – such as supernovas, variable stars or asteroids.
—Samantha Thompson, Space.com, 7 July 2025
Among the supernovas in the data will be other transient events such as variable stars and kilonovas, the violent collision between extreme dense stellar remnants called neutron stars.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 27 Jan. 2025
In particular, Leavitt would scrutinize images of the Small and Large Magellanic Clouds, and had identified 1,800 variable stars within them.
—Keith Cooper, Space.com, 17 Jan. 2025
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“Variable star.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/variable%20star. Accessed 29 Jul. 2025.
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