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An international team of astronomers were studying the center of our galaxy
They were observing the movement of stars and gas clouds

Interestingly, they discovered a very large blinking star
This star 25,000 light years away from us
it's name is VVV-WIT-08

It is decreasing its brightness by the factor of 30
making it completely invisible in night sky

It is a new class of blinking giant stars
Some stars change their brightness as they are pulsars
while brightness of some stars decrease when they are eclipsed

This blinking star is a giant binary star system
the largest star in this system is 100 times bigger than our sun

It get eclipsed in every few decades
Its companion is either a star or a planet having opaque rings
This opaque ring cover this star
causing it to appear and disappear

Well, scientists are studying it in detail
There are many such stars present in our universe

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