When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;
Psalm 8:3
"Using machine learning techniques and data from the All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae
(ASAS-SN) and several other surveys, astronomers have identified
378,861 variable stars, of which 262,834 are known variables and 116,027
are new discoveries.
Variable stars are celestial objects whose brightness waxes and wanes over time, especially if observed from our perspective on Earth.
“In fact, even our Sun is considered a variable star,” said Dr.
Collin Christy.
“Variable stars are sort of like a stellar laboratory. They’re really
neat places in the Universe where we can study and learn more about how
stars actually work and the little intricacies that they all have.” SciNews