The researchers have found something weird and unusual on the mysterious star KIC 8462852, which is known as Tabby's Star. It has become even stranger according to the new analysis from the Kepler Space Telescope. The astronomers cannot explain the dimming of the mysterious star.
Ben Montet of the California Institute of Technology, an astronomer and Josh Simon of the Carnegie Institution found that the mysterious star dimmed during that time at an unprecedented rate of 0.341 percent each year. They analyzed the first four years of Kepler's mission, wherein it stared constantly at KIC 8462852 as well as 150,000 other stars while looking for exoplanets transits, according to Astronomy Now.
The researchers examined closely the full-frame images of Tabby's Star taken during the Kepler's mission. The star's luminosity decreased by about 0.34 percent per year for the first 1000 days. Then, on the following 200 days, its flux lowered by 2 percent and then leveled off. In the four years of Kepler's mission. The star faded approximately by 3 percent. This is such as the big amount in such a small period of time.
Montet said that the part that really surprised him was just how rapid and non-linear it was. He further said that they spent a long time trying to convince them this wasn't real.
MO, it is highly doubtful that should the next intensive study of this stellar anomaly show that this unusual dimming is clearly artificial, that we will ever see that finding announced to the world. It will be spun as some kind hitherto unknown "natural phenomenon." Mainstream academics do not want to lose their credibility, and most importantly, their funding. To read more, click here.