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A team of astronomers, including four high school students, has carried out the first survey of variability in young stellar objects in the Pelican Nebula — pictured here — and the neighboring North America Nebula using the sky-scanning Zwicky Transient Facility. The survey revealed a wide variety of stellar behaviors, including "bursters" and "dippers." You can learn more about this survey of young variable stars in our AAS Nova highlight and the corresponding research article in the Astronomical Journal. [Wikipedia; CC BY-SA 4.0]
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