We have another oddly behaving star. Gaia17bpp has been gradually increasing in luminosity. And we know why.
Turns out it's a binary and its smaller companion is dragging a ton of dust with it. For the past seven years, this dust cloud has eclipsed the larger star. This won't happen again for another millennium.
Binary systems do this, but this one is particularly spectacula.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/11/world/distant-star-brightening-scn/index.html
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