its showing some UNUSUAL properties..

Astronomers have detected a red pulsar so bright it is actually detectable in a galaxy 53 million light years away.  Up until now it was unconsidered to have any effect on the general brightness scale of a galaxy.  Apparently this star is so strong that it is actually affecting things in the region where it resides.  The galaxy involved is Messier 87:

Later in life, stars like our Sun undergo significant changes. They become very bright and swell up to huge size, swallowing any planets within a radius equivalent to Earth’s distance from the Sun.

Near the end of their lifetime, these stars begin to pulsate, increasing and decreasing their brightness every few hundred days.

Let’s check out a video of a visually amazing pulsating star on the next page

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