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Unexplained star behavior found during exoplanet search
Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2015 7:57 pm
by Jonathan
http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronom ... fling.html
One theory to account for 22% occlusion of a star: aliens with a yuuuuuuuge solar collector.
Another theory: your mama!
Re: Unexplained star behavior found during exoplanet search
Posted: Wed Dec 02, 2015 6:51 pm
by Jonathan
Maybe a huge swarm of comets?
http://m.phys.org/news/2015-12-astronom ... -star.html
22% reduction in light output is a lot of comets.
Re: Unexplained star behavior found during exoplanet search
Posted: Mon Feb 01, 2016 10:42 pm
by Jonathan
Re: Unexplained star behavior found during exoplanet search
Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2016 9:25 pm
by Jonathan
http://gizmodo.com/we-might-finally-sol ... 1782161374
The Kickstarter to fund telescope time to stare at this thing was funded.
Re: Unexplained star behavior found during exoplanet search
Posted: Fri May 19, 2017 7:15 pm
by Jonathan
Re: Unexplained star behavior found during exoplanet search
Posted: Wed Oct 11, 2017 2:35 am
by Jonathan
Re: Unexplained star behavior found during exoplanet search
Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2017 8:23 pm
by quantus
Yay, mystery solved, not back to our regularly scheduled lives on the only known source of intelligent life.