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Publications of the Astronomical Society... Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific Vol. 119, No. 853, March 2007 Variable Stars in the Open Cluster NGC 2... Variable Stars in the Open ...

in turn these developments also help in our understanding of X-ray binaries, black holes and active galactic nuclei. This timely volume provides the first comprehensive survey of cataclysmic variable ...

Betelgeuse, one of the most luminous stars visible from Earth, continues to surprise astronomers. The red giant’s brightness ...

Luminous blue variable stars such as this one are prone to such ... This would be a rare event: our current understanding of how massive stars die suggests most of them meet their end in a violent ...

She worked there for the rest of her life. Leavitt discovered 2,400 variable stars, about half of the known total in her day. Through these discoveries came her most important contribution to the ...