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Verse Lyrics: Magnificent, superb, I’m La Superba, one of the reddest stars in your sky I’m a special supergiant called a carbon star, that’s why My large abundance of carbon absorbs blue light making me glow red In the constellation Canes Venatici, you’ll see me above your head
CW Leonis, the closest carbon star to Earth, that’s me A dying red giant in the Leo constellation and a hypnotic sight to see The orange-red webs around me are clouds of carbon I’ve ejected, Providing raw material for new stars and planets to form, that’s what’s expected
In the constellation Puppis, the first double pulsar discovered, a rarity PSR J0737- 3039 A/B Orbiting every 2.4 hours, We make gravitational waves or ripples in space-time Binary, rapidly rotating neutron stars you can study from Earth because we’re aligned
A super-fast, compact subdwarf I’m TMTS-J0526B Only 7 times larger than Earth, one of the smallest stars you’ll ever see With my binary Companion a white dwarf star we Complete one orbit every 20.5 minutes This speed is distorting my shape, find me in the constellation Camelopardalis
We’re the J093010 Doubly-Eclipsing Quintuple star System A contact binary and a detached binary pair with a 5th star orbiting them Easy to observe from Earth because We eclipse each other along the same sight line In the Ursa Major Constellation, We’re One of the strangest star systems you’ll find
I’m the Snowman Star, WD J0551 that’s me The result of a merge of two white dwarf stars into one strange star you see I’m much faster, more massive and carbon rich than typical white dwarf stars 150 light years away I’m something special you’ve never seen before
The Stunning RS Puppis, a luminous Cepheid variable star that’s me I rhythmically brighten and dim because I’m expanding and contracting every six weeks Surrounded by a nebula, Hubble captured photos of my light echo In the constellation Puppis you can watch my light diminish and grow
WR 104 - The Death Star, because when I supernova, I’ll release a powerful gamma ray burst This burst could be a planet killer and it looked like my death ray was pointed at Earth Don’t worry, new studies show I’m not aligned, so my triple star system earned a new nickname for us The Pinwheel star, because the collision of our powerful winds creates a pinwheel of dust
Will we meet a tightly bound quadruple star? Packed close together these stars are! Will we meet the most magnetic star? The progenitor of a Magnetar? Will we meet a Recurrent Nova star? Exploding regularly over and over!? Will we meet a Dyson Sphere alien megastructure giant!? I really love Science!
T Coronae Borealis a Blaze star with a special talent to show I’m a recurrent Nova, and experience explosions every 80 years or so A binary star, I steal gas from my red giant companion that forms a cloud around me The gas builds up on my surface, pressure and temperature build until my surface explodes dramatically
TIC 120362137 The most compact quadruple star system 3 tightly bound inner stars with me, a 4th star, orbiting them We 3 inner stars are so close we could fit within the orbit of Mercury around your Sun Eventually we 3 will merge and end up as just two white dwarfs when were done
In the constellation Crater, I’m the TV Crateris star system A quadruple system, two pairs of binary stars, with a protoplanetary disk around one The disk has a gap dividing it into two dust belts, which probably means one thing The gaps are being created because there is a new planet forming
The most magnetic massive star discovered yet, I’m a quasi Wolf-Rayet Star In the HD 45166 binary system in the constellation Monoceros we are I’m a massive, helium rich star with an incredibly strong magnetic field When I supernova, my core will collapse into a Magnetar, that’s what time will yield
I’m HD139139 the Random Transiter, I’m a mystery Within 87 days scientists observed 28 objects transiting or passing in front of me But these weren’t planets, they aren’t periodic, So what else could it be? Could I be a Dyson Sphere – an alien megastructure built around a star to harvest energy