KIC 8462852 Faded Throughout the Kepler Mission » kic-8462852-light
Over the four years that the Kepler telescope monitored this mysterious star, its light levels dropped by a total of about 3 percent–but not all at a constant rate. (For reference, the huge dip at the 800 mark is one of the huge dips that originally tipped off scientists that this was a freakin’ weird star. “It was off the charts,” says Montet.)
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