"Mi06 is a mere 24 LY away" - ASSistant professor Paul B. Andersen.

On Feb 24, 7:08 pm, "Androcles"
wrote:

There are millions of stars. Only those that change in brightness
interest anyone

Quite the contrary.
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[SNIPPED infantile raging, restoring unanswered comment]

Quite the contrary. For instance, stars with dead constant
luminosity are of immense interest in the Kepler project. The
target stars in Kepler are pre-screened for constant luminosity,
since it is only against an almost non-varying background that
there is any hope of detecting transits by Earth-sized planets.
After only four months of observation, THOUSANDS of potential
exoplanets have been detected, ranging from candidate hot
jupiters to candidate nearly Earthlike planets populating the
habitable zone. It is estimated that perhaps 80% of these
preliminary candidates will pan out and represent genuine
discoveries. One remarkable candidate system comprises six
planets closely orbiting a star referred to as Kepler 11.

One remarkable result, so far as Henry and Androcles would be
concerned, is that NONE of the light curves from these stars,
even those orbited by hot jupiters, bear any resemblance to the
light curves predicted by emission theory. Rather, they look just
the way the light curves would look if the stars were of dead
constant luminosity but were periodically transited.

Jerry