How to Use variable star in a Sentence

variable star

noun

• This type of system is called a cataclysmic variable star.
  — Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 9 Apr. 2012
• 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, 6 July 2020
• The image from Hubble shows a nebula (a gas cloud) that happened during one of the larger outbursts from the variable star.
  — Elizabeth Howell, Forbes, 26 Apr. 2021
• Bright idea Skowron and her colleagues mapped the Milky Way in three dimensions using 2,431 classical Cepheid variable stars.
  — Nadia Drake, National Geographic, 1 Aug. 2019
• On top of these random events, Betelgeuse is also known to be a semi-regular variable star.
  — The Economist, 11 Jan. 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, 14 Feb. 2020
• The telescope gathered a trove of unprecedented data on the pulsations of variable stars throughout the galaxy.
  — Quanta Magazine, 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, 5 Feb. 2019
• For the local universe, these mile markers are Cepheid variable stars, which periodically pulse and share the same intrinsic brightness.
  — National Geographic, 25 Apr. 2018
• So far, astronomers have estimated those distances using data from 10 well-studied, long-period variable stars in the Milky Way.
  — National Geographic, 25 Apr. 2018
• In response to that question, researchers have turned their computation gun on a long-standing problem: why do luminous blue variable stars exist?
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 8 Oct. 2018
• 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, 6 July 2020
• Haro discovered flare stars, variable stars which experience unpredictable surges in brightness.
  — Brett Molina, USA TODAY, 21 Mar. 2018

Last Updated: 14 Dec 2024