Tabby's Star
F-type main-sequence star · KIC 8462852
Star with unexplained irregular deep dimming events
An otherwise ordinary F-type star that drew worldwide attention when Kepler recorded bizarre, deep and irregular dips in its brightness, briefly fueling speculation about alien megastructures. The dimming is now generally attributed to clouds of uneven dust.
Illustration generated from temperature, not a photograph
1.4 ☉
mass (the Sun = 1)
4.7 ×
as bright as the Sun
6,750 K
surface · yellow-white star
2 R☉
radius (the Sun = 1)
1,470 ly
from Earth
11.7
apparent magnitude
It pours out about 4.7 times the Sun’s light. Its light has been travelling 1,470 years to reach us, so you see Tabby's Star as it was 1,470 years ago.
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It lives in
Milky Way
Barred spiral galaxy.
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