IT BEGINS!!!!!!!!!

they hyped it because no matter what the explanation was, it was going to be something new to our understanding of how stars work

....aaaaand it turned out to be a dust cloud.

it's a dust cloud of super-fine particulate matter that's somehow stuck around the star for multiple passes even though that dust should have been blown away by solar wind. that shouldn't happen.

The principal results of this work are summarised below:
- In dimming events of KIC8462 of depths of up to 1.6% and
lasting a few days, we find a clear colour-signature, with the dips
approximately 1.5 - 2 times deeper in the bluer than in the redder
visual bands. The wavelength dependency can be described by
a single number, an Ångström Absorption Coe ffi cient (AAC) of
2.19±0.45.
- This is di ff erent to KIC8462’s flux variations on time-scales
of months to years, which have been reported to display largely
neutral colours in the visual regime. These variations should
therefore be caused by di ff erent absorbers, or arise from di ff erent
processes, than the short events.
- Assuming that the short events are caused by occultations,
their wavelength dependency implies that most of the cross-
section of the occulters must be optically thin, and consist of
particles with sizes in the range 0.0015 – 0.15 µ m.
- Such small particles will not resist blow-out by radiation
pressure. At expected periastron distances of 0.6AU or less, ra-
diation pressure will deviate them on time-scales of days over
distances larger than then radius of the central star. They must
therefore be replenished continually.
- In the 15-20% deep events observed to date only by Ke-
pler, a significant part of their occulting cross section was likely
optically thick. Hence we predict for deeper events a tendency
towards more neutral colour signatures. This tendency may al-
ready be present in the deepest event that was observed by GTC.

Whatever it ends up being, it's still fucking weird.

>he literally didn't read my comment: the post

okay but that's my point, if you can't prove it wrong or right it's still up for debate

Either give me the breakthrough to nuclear fusion power/FTL,

Or give me World War Three.

This nothing happening shit is killing me.

>weird
It's always just dust or rocks.

this one was special though, since it did not even remotely fit with all the other times that it was dust and rocks
those do a couple percent, tabby's star did 20%, so that warranted some additional investigation
don't slap on the media bullshit, nobody but them said it was ayys

Tabby's Star is still not explainable using natural means.

>Negative Mass.