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KIC 8462852
A mysterious star that sent alien-hunters scrambling for their telescopes over the last couple of years is finally yielding some of its secrets. The star – nicknamed Tabby’s Star – has intrigued astr…
Mysterious star KIC 8462852 that has been confounding astronomers since its 2015 discovery is continuing to do so, as spectacularly as only KIC 8462852 can. According to all-sky survey records examin…
There's a prosaic explanation for at least some of the weirdness of "Tabby's star," it would appear. The bizarre long-term dimming of Tabby's star — also known as By…
Scientists believed they have SOLVED the "alien megastructure" mystery surrounding strange signals from distant Tabby's Star. Observations of the star revealed it was alternately dimm…
The “alien megastructure” star that has been puzzling us for the past few years might have a more ordinary explanation: an orbiting Saturn-like planet, complete with wobbling rings. In 2015, a group …
KIC 8462852 probably sounds like a string of random letters and numbers to you but I'm willing to bet if you've watched this channel long enough, you've heard it before. It's th…
If you believe science is demystifying the universe, consider Tabby’s star, widely hailed as the weirdest sun in the galaxy . “As far as I can tell,” MIT-trained astronomer Matt Muterspaugh said rec…
It has caused a media furore - but, the 'alien megastructure' star may be something a little more mundane, a new theory claims. It says that instead of a giant craft, dips in brightness were …
When astronomers turn to Twitter to ask everyone who has access to a big enough telescope to look at the sky, you know something is up. Indeed, something was up this past weekend, as one of the Uni…
The most mysterious star in the Milky Way is at it again. Astronomers are sounding the alarms Friday as telescope observations detect unusual light patterns coming from a distant star By Ma…
As far as weird stars go, few are as strange as KIC 8462852, nicknamed Tabby's star. Tabby's star randomly dims and brightens for apparently no reason, which led some astronomers in 2015 to…
It has been dubbed the most mysterious star in the galaxy. The star, more than 1,200 light-years away in the constellation Cygnus the Swan, flickers and dims in a way never seen before. The starlight…
