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Alpha Cygni variable, a Common card
Alpha Cygni variables are variable stars which exhibit non-radial pulsations, meaning that some portions of the stellar surface are contracting at the same time other parts expand.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 63
- DEF
- 47
- Power
- 110
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 3,200
Ranked #2,387 of the 2,999 cards of the base set by power (ATK + DEF).
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- They are supergiant stars of spectral types B or A. Variations in brightness on the order of 0.1 magnitudes are associated with the pulsations, which often seem irregular, due to beating of multiple pulsation periods.
- The pulsations typically have periods of several days to several weeks.
- The prototype of these stars, Deneb, exhibits fluctuations in brightness between magnitudes +1.21 and +1.29.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Alpha Cygni variable article was read about 3,200 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 63 and blocks with 47: each hit it takes is cut by 19 %.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Alpha Cygni variable (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : PopePompus, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
