Milkway's most-mysterious star is even stranger than astronomers thought

Milkway's most-mysterious star is even stranger than astronomers thought Pasadena CA (SPX) Oct 04, 2016 - A star known by the unassuming name of KIC 8462852 in the constellation Cygnus has been raising eyebrows both in and outside of the scientific community for the past year. In 2015 a team of astronomers announced that the star underwent a series of very brief, non-periodic dimming events while it was being monitored by NASA's Kepler space telescope, and no one could quite figure out what caused t ... more

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