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Mark Fisher
1999-2008
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This vast and highly luminous star is a multiple with some seventeen companions. It is a Cepheid variable, meaning that it periodically swells and contracts. The pattern of this variability allows us to calculate its distance from the Earth with some precision: an enormous 12,000 light years.
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