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Variable star, an Uncommon card
A variable star is a star whose brightness as seen from Earth changes systematically with time.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 90
- DEF
- 94
- Power
- 184
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 39,000
Ranked #417 of the 3,000 cards of the base set by power (ATK + DEF).
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- This variation may be caused by a change in emitted light or by something partly blocking the light, so variable stars are classified as either: Intrinsic variables, whose inherent luminosity changes, for example, because the star swells and shrinks.
- Extrinsic variables, whose apparent changes in brightness are due to changes in the amount of their light that can reach Earth, for example, because the star has an orbiting companion that sometimes eclipses it.
- Depending on the type of star system, this variation can include cyclical, irregular, fluctuating, or transient behavior.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Variable star article was read about 39,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 90 and blocks with 94: each hit it takes is cut by 38 %.
How to get Variable star
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Variable star (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : ESO/M. Montargès et al., CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.







