juliensimon/

gcvs-variable-stars

Credit: NASA/ESA/Hubble

Part of a dataset collection on Hugging Face.

The General Catalogue of Variable Stars (GCVS) is the canonical reference catalog of variable stars, maintained since 1948 by the Sternberg Astronomical Institute at Moscow State University. Variable stars are stars whose brightness changes over time, either due to intrinsic physical processes (pulsation, eruption, rotation)… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/juliensimon/gcvs-variable-stars.