Meet Algol.(star) From: Highlights for Children | Date: October 1, 2005| Author: Fortier, Edmund A. | COPYRIGHT 2005 Highlights for Children, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Nearly everyone enjoys looking at the stars. For most of us, the brightest ones get all the attention. Rigel blazes on cold winter evenings. On hazy summer nights, Vega sparkles like a diamond.

But a star doesn't have to be bright to be interesting. Take Algol. It's not as bright as Rigel or Vega--but then, those stars don't wink. Algol does.

Like billions of other stars, Algol appears to brighten and dim in cycles. Nearly all of these winking, or variable, st...

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