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Hubble-Sandage variable
  ورتنده‌ی ِ هابل-سندیج  
vartande-ye Hubble-Sandage
Fr.: variable de Hubble-Sandage  

A type of highly luminous → blue supergiant star with variable light, first discovered in the M31 and M33 galaxies; also called
→ S Doradus stars. They are now believed
to be part of the class of → Luminous Blue Variable stars.

See also: → Hubble; Allan Rex Sandage (1926-2010), American cosmologist.