How can it behave?

Different kinds of brightness

Naturally, different kind of stars produce different kind of brightness that we can recive and interpret, in fact, that is the way these kind of stars were discovered, by comparing their brightness through out the time in very useful graphs that let us see their difference, here are some of those:

Nova light curve

It demostrate the perk of luminosity before the star slowly dies, actually something beautiful to see.

Super nova light curve

It shows that the supernova is the brightest event in space due to its enourmous luminosity.

Cepheid light curve

Here we can see that the cepheid star follows indeed a certain pattern in externing his brightness making it very useful

If the light curve we measured looked like the graph below, we would identify the object as an eclipsing binary star. The light curve also shows us that it takes 10 days for one of the stars in the binary to orbit completely around the other. Astronomers would say that the binary system has an orbital period of 10 days.

This help us a lot to understand the thing we are studying, how they work , why the work like this and in this way we can even preddict something new is going to happen if we can recopile enough data by observating

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