When the Cepheid variable RU Camelopardalis stopped pulsating,astronomers speculated that it was
A) exhausting its helium.
B) exhausting its hydrogen.
C) turning off its triple alpha process.
D) evolving out of the instability strip.
E) becoming a red supergiant.
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