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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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    "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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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