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Why isn't it thought to be a stellar ring? If a gas giant gets torn apart inside the Roche limit of a star, wouldn't you get something that looks a lot like that - for a few hundred years anyway? Sort of a naturally occurring 'smoke ring'?
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A uniform ring would cause a constant rate of extinction, but it could be a lumpy ring, or 'arc' ring which is only partially complete. The curious thing is the lumpy, bumpy nature of the light-curve.
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Please consider sending a little dinero to the kickstarter campaign to monitor this oddball of the skies
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/608...n=45297e55
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People, there are just a few hours left in the kickstarter campaign and we are almost there.
Come on...
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Tabby is trying to start a discussion forum on the star
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/608...ts/1633722
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Hm. Interesting, although I get the sense that the data is a bit preliminary at this point.
If it gained weight with more data, mining stars would certainly bake a lot of people's brains
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If there are civilisations out there millions or billions of years old, I'd expect a few of them to try star-lifting - although I'm not convinced we'd recognise it easily.
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See what reddit has to say about this star:
https://www.reddit.com/r/KIC8462852/
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