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Variable stars

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(Astron.) fixed stars which vary in their brightness, usually in more or less uniform periods.

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The survey data includes 185 cataclysmic variable stars, which is about three out of every four such objects discovered over the same time span and more than the Sloan Digital Sky Survey found in six years.
Mr James discussed recent amateur observations and forthcoming events, including comets, deep-sky objects, variable stars, novae, meteor showers, a quiescent Sun, noctilucent clouds, and lunar and solar eclipses.
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