An international team of astronomers has conducted a survey of variable stars in the field of a globular cluster known as NGC 6558. As a result, they identified dozens of variables, out of which two turned out to be new cluster members. The finding was reported in a research paper published June 29 on the pre-print server arXiv.
Two new variable stars detected in globular cluster NGC 6558 retrieved 8 July 2024 from https://phys.org/news/2024-07-variable-stars-globular-cluster-ngc.html
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