KIC 8462852

KIC 8462852, otherwise known as Tabby's Star, is now once again making headlines as scientists are revealing that it has dimmed once again. The F-type star in the constellation Cygnus, which is about 1,280 light-years away, first came into the scientific limelight after astronomers revealed to the public ...

In September of 2015, the star KIC 8462852 (aka. Tabby's Star) captured the world's attention when it was found to be experiencing a mysterious drop in brightness. In the years since then, multiple studies have been conducted that have tried to offer a natural explanation for this behavior – and even an ...

The team of astrophysicists studying KIC 8462852, more well known as Tabby's star, has reported that the star recently dimmed again, and did so quite dramatically. The group, led by LSU's Tabby Boyajian who discovered the odd behavior of the star back in 2015, has been documenting their findings on ...

Though KIC 8462852, also known as Tabby's star, is probably not host to an alien megastructure like a Dyson Sphere or an orbiting solar panel array, it's pattern of brightening and dimming is still puzzling astronomers. We now know that space dust is probably the culprit, but there's something strange ...

The vagaries of KIC 8462852, the star better known as "Tabby's star" in honor of Boyajian, have been the subject of scientific sleuthing for years. In 2015, researchers led by Boyajian reported that the Kepler space telescope had captured a completely new phenomenon at Tabby's star. At irregular intervals ...

Planets and asteroids orbit like clockwork. Stars steadily change over the eons as they burn through their different types of fuels. So when KIC 8462852 turned up in astronomical observations 'flashing' in an unpredictable, erratic way — eyebrows were raised. It didn't seem to fit any known stellar behaviour.

Named KIC 8462852, the star doesn't act like any star we've ever seen before. Its light fluctuations are extreme, dimming by up to 20 percent at times. And its dips don't seem to repeat in a predictable way. That means something really big and irregular is passing in front of this star, leading scientists to ...