Something massive, with roughly 1,000 times the area of Earth, is blocking that light coming from a distant star known as KIC 8462852 (aka The WTF Star, Boyajian’s Star or Tabby’s Star), and nobody is quite sure what it is. This mystery has been the subject of much media speculation with articles presenting theories running from a super-structure built by highly advanced aliens to a extra-solar system of massive ringed planets. Astronomers and citizen scientists alike are teaming up to investigate this perplexing celestial object by measuring its large irregular changes in brightness with the hope of fully explaining all aspects of the star’s complex variability.
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