 Luyten 726-8 - Discovery: Encyclopedia - Luyten 726-8Luyten 726-8 is a binary star system that is one of Earth's nearest neighbors. One of its components is the well-known flare star UV Ceti (Luyten 726-8 B).
Although UV Ceti was not the first flare star discovered, it is the most prominent example of such a star, and in fact flare stars are sometimes called "UV Ceti variables". It goes through fairly extreme changes of brightness: for instance, in 1952, its brightness increased by 75 times in only 20 seco ...
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