👉 Cepheid is a term used in astronomy to describe a type of pulsar. Pulsars are very faint radio sources that emit periodic radio waves, and they can be classified into two main types: pulsars with periods between 10-30 seconds and those with periods longer than 30 seconds. The most well-known cepheid pulsar is the Crab pulsar, which has a period of approximately 5 hours and 24 minutes.