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Amidst the picturesque terraced houses of Primrose Hill, London, a mother's concern for her son's unexplained abdominal pain echoes the turbulent waves crashing against a white dwarf star in the constellation of Camelopardalis, Z Camelopardalis. As we journey through time, we find similarities in the unpredictable ebb and flow of these phenomena. In the Edo period of Japan around 1769, the old understanding of tuberculosis, a disease marked by the relentless waves of coughing and fever, was replaced by the new discovery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in X-ray images. Just as the old and new understandings of this disease bring clarity to the medical world, the study of white dwarf stars continues to reveal new insights into the universe's mysteries. The waves on these ancient stars, once thought to be tranquil, are now known to be dynamic and complex, much like the human body and the universe itself.