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UU Herculis star  

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  • A UU Herculis star is a semiregular variable, somewhat Cepheid-like in its behavior, but that pulsates with two different periods and has occasional standstills. One theory suggests that UU Herculis stars are relatively low-mass post-asymptotic giant branch stars in a stage of evolution in which their spectra mimic those of more massive supergiants. (Encyclopedia of Science, by David Darling, https://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/U/UU_Herculis_star.html)

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