Short Sharp Science
19 May 2017
Astronomers scramble as ‘alien megastructure’ star dims again
By Leah Crane
The most famously weird star in our galaxy is acting up again. On Friday, 19 May, Tabby’s star began to dim, carrying on a history of mysterious dips in brightness. Astronomers are scrambling to point as many telescopes as possible at the star, which is 1,300 light-years away in the constellation Cygnus, to decipher its strange signal.
In 2015, a team of astronomers led by Yale’s Tabetha Boyajian saw the light from the star KIC 8462852 suddenly and repeatedly dip in brightness. The star dimmed by up to 22 per cent before it returned to normal.
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2131871-astronomers-scramble-as-alien-megastructure-star-dims-again/
