After more than four years of observations with the Kepler Space Telescope, astronomers reveal that a bizarre star called KIC 8462852 has unexplained objects orbiting around it.
The star, located 1480 light-years from Earth, was flagged in 20111 by citizen scientists recruited by the Kepler’s Planet Hunters program. The “interesting” and “bizarre” star was emitting light patterns stranger than any of the other 150,000 stars Kepler was watching.
“We’d never seen anything like this star,” Tabetha Boyajian, a postdoc at Yale and overseer of Planet Hunters, told The Atlantic. “It was really weird. We thought it might be bad data or movement on the spacecraft, but everything checked out.”
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The star, located 1480 light-years from Earth, was flagged in 20111 by citizen scientists recruited by the Kepler’s Planet Hunters program. The “interesting” and “bizarre” star was emitting light patterns stranger than any of the other 150,000 stars Kepler was watching.
“We’d never seen anything like this star,” Tabetha Boyajian, a postdoc at Yale and overseer of Planet Hunters, told The Atlantic. “It was really weird. We thought it might be bad data or movement on the spacecraft, but everything checked out.”
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