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Observing a stellar chameleon

“It’s more than 20 years since amateur astronomer Yukio Sakurai noticed what he thought was a nova in Sagittarius”

We’re so used to the astronomical world being static and unchanging that even small alterations, like this year’s fading of Betelgeuse in Orion, can be both surprising and somewhat unsettling. For some objects, though, change is just

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