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What weird thing in space is pulsing every 20 minutes?

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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The Chaos of the Sun

The sun is a lot of electrons to model. It can get very turbulent and very chaotic meaning that like a small change in one electron can cascade into a big effect for other electrons. That's one of the things that makes the sun hard to model it can be very chaotic on its insides. There are stars out there in the universe that are very dramatically pulsating they swell in size and they also shrink they get like bigger and smaller. Some of these things pulse with a fairly regular frequency or sometimes multiple frequencies they can be either very regular or stochastic. The variability of the night sky is actually a very important handle scientifically for understanding like the 3D structure of what we're looking

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