One star in the night doesn’t shine like other stars. It stays the same brightness for about three days, dims for ten hours, then brightens up to its normal brightness again. It then repeats the same pattern. Because of this change in brightness, ancient stellar map makers named this star ‘Algol’, which means the ‘Demon Star,’ or the ‘Winking Star’.
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