Back to Discover
🚀

Variable star

space Maturity 9-11

Some stars change their light.

New View of the Great Nebula in Carina.jpg
New View of the Great Nebula in Carina.jpg
They can get bright. Then they get dim. A star might swell and shrink. This makes the light change. Do you like looking at stars?

38 words
🖼️ Images & Media (14)
File:Eso2003c.jpg
Eso2003c.jpg
File:New View of the Great Nebula in Carina.jpg
New View of the Great Nebula in Carina.jpg
File:HR-vartype.svg
HR-vartype.svg
File:HR-diag-instability-strip.svg
HR-diag-instability-strip.svg
File:Cepheid animation 5 rend 1.gif
Cepheid animation 5 rend 1.gif
File:Chi Cygni light curve.png
Chi Cygni light curve.png
File:V1025 Tauri Taurus Molecular Nebula from the Mount Lemmon SkyCenter Schulman Telescope courtesy Adam Block.jpg
V1025 Tauri Taurus Molecular Nebula from...
File:Dust Cloud in a R CrB Star (Artist's Impression).jpg
Dust Cloud in a R CrB Star (Artist's...
File:Nasa EV Lacertae 250408.jpg
Nasa EV Lacertae 250408.jpg
File:Supernova 1994D in Galaxy NGC 4526 (1999-19-813).jpg
Supernova 1994D in Galaxy NGC 4526...
File:V838 Monocerotis expansion.jpg
V838 Monocerotis expansion.jpg
Artist’s Illustration of Extragalactic...

+ 2 more

Up Next
🚀
Cepheid variable
Space
→
More to explore

✨ What else?

Related topics you might enjoy

Cepheid variable 0% Classical Cepheid variable 0% Luminosity 0% Light curve 0% Mira variable 0% Solar luminosity 0%

🔬 Go deeper

More advanced topics to explore

Cepheid variable Luminosity Light curve Solar luminosity

🪜 Step back

Simpler topics to build understanding

Classical Cepheid variable Mira variable Flare star Beta Pictoris
📚 Content adapted from Wikipedia | Readability: FK 12.4 | Vital Level 4