Studying dust produced by 'twinkling' stars could shed light

Astronomers have discovered a coincidence between the varying intensity of dusty asymptotic giant branch (AGB) stars, a kind of star slightly larger and older than our Sun, and variations in the amount of dust these stars produce.

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