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    Tabby's Star (redirect from KIC 8462852)
    Tabby's Star (also known as Boyajian's Star and WTF Star, and designated KIC 8462852 in the Kepler Input Catalog) is an F-type main-sequence star in the constellation...
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    observed from certain variable stars, such as that from Tabby's Star (KIC 8462852), RZ Piscium and WD 1145+017. Excessive amounts of infrared radiation...
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    citizen scientists discovered unusual light fluctuations of the star KIC 8462852 raising press speculation that a Dyson sphere may have been discovered...
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    "Where's the Flux?", which investigated the highly unusual light curve of KIC 8462852; the star is colloquially known as Tabby's Star in her honor. Boyajian...
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    evolution). Notable examples include Procyon A, Gamma Virginis A and B, and KIC 8462852. The revised Yerkes Atlas system (Johnson & Morgan 1953) listed a dense...
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    Its magnitude is around 16.6, its period is about 940 days. The star KIC 8462852 (Tabby's Star) has received widespread press coverage because of unusual...
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    October 2015, there was some speculation that a dimming of light from star KIC 8462852, observed by the Kepler space telescope, could have been a result of...
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  • language, a Trans–New Guinean language "WTF star" ("Where's The Flux"), or KIC 8462852, an unusual star All pages with titles beginning with WTF All pages with...
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    September 2019. Schmidt, Edward G. (July 2019). "A Search for Analogs of KIC 8462852 (Boyajian's Star): A Proof of Concept and the First Candidates". The...
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  • CP 1919 (misidentified pulsar) CTA-102 (misidentified quasar) Stars KIC 8462852 (unusual light fluctuations) EPIC 204278916 (unusual light fluctuations)...
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  • civilization. The reported studies included Tabby's Star (designated KIC 8462852 in the Kepler Input Catalog), an oddly dimming star in which its unusual...
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  • by the Kepler team. An example of one of these objects is Kepler-78b. KIC 8462852 is a binary star whose primary shows a mysterious transit profile. The...
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    KIC 9832227 is a contact binary star system in the constellation Cygnus, located about 2,060 light-years away. It is also identified as an eclipsing binary...
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    (energy) Orders of magnitude (power) Quiet and loud aliens Tabby's Star (KIC 8462852) Terraforming White's law World energy supply and consumption " If the...
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  • that the likely explanation for the unusual dimming events related to KIC 8462852 (or Tabby's Star) is that an "uneven ring of dust" orbits the star. 5...
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  • processes create cosmic rays whose energy exceeds the GZK cutoff? Nature of KIC 8462852, commonly known as Tabby's Star: What is the origin of the unusual luminosity...
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  • the atmospheric variability of the system. Bradley has also studied KIC 8462852, a star with unusual within-day light fluctuations of about 20 percent...
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  • Kepler-70 (redirect from KIC 5807616 c)
    Kepler-70, also known as KIC 5807616 and KOI-55, is a star about 3,600 light-years (1,100 parsecs) away in the constellation Cygnus, with an apparent...
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    Observational studies of unusual starlight fluctuations in Tabby's Star (KIC 8462852) and WD 1145+017 are recent interests. HAO consists of two telescopes...
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    September 2015, astronomers reported the unusual light fluctuations of KIC 8462852, an F-type main-sequence star in the constellation Cygnus, as detected...
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  • CP 1919 (misidentified pulsar) CTA-102 (misidentified quasar) Stars KIC 8462852 (unusual light fluctuations) EPIC 204278916 (unusual light fluctuations)...
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    [needs update] In November 2015, the ATA studied the anomalous star KIC 8462852, and in autumn 2017 the Allen Telescope Array examined the interstellar...
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    208-44 G 208-45 GSC 03949-00967 HAT-P-17 KELT-9 KELT-20 KIC 8462852 KIC 9832227 KIC 11026764 KIC 11145123 KOI-5 KOI-74 KOI-81 KOI-256 MWC 349 N6946-BH1...
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    September 14, 2015, astronomers reported unusual light fluctuations of KIC 8462852, an F-type main-sequence star in the constellation Cygnus, as detected...
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    Webb may be used to gather information on the dimming light of star KIC 8462852, which was discovered in 2015, and has some abnormal light-curve properties...
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    Input Catalog (KIC), and then progressed as a candidate host of planets as Kepler Object of Interest (KOI). Thus Kepler-186 started as KIC 8120608 and then...
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    208-44 G 208-45 GSC 03949-00967 HAT-P-17 KELT-9 KELT-20 KIC 8462852 KIC 9832227 KIC 11026764 KIC 11145123 KOI-5 KOI-74 KOI-81 KOI-256 MWC 349 N6946-BH1...
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  • KIC 11145123 (sometimes mistakenly called Kepler 1145123), is a white hued star located in the northern constellation Cygnus, the swan. It has an apparent...
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    discovered by an amateur astronomer with a small-aperture amateur telescope. KIC 8462852 (2016) is an F-type star showing unusual dimming events. HD 74389 (2016)...
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    Kepler-452 (redirect from KIC-8311864)
    19440088+4416392. In the Kepler Input Catalog, it has the designation of KIC 8311864. When it was found to have a transiting planet candidate, it was...
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