'Heartbeat Stars' Unlocked in New Study

Friday, October 21, 2016 - 13:01 in Astronomy & Space

Heartbeat stars got their name because if you were to map out their brightness over time, the result looks like an electrocardiogram, a graph of the electrical activity of the heart.

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