This Week’s Astronomy News: The Stars are Dimming, The Sky is Falling, and Io’s Atmosphere is Collapsing
2016-08-13
Last fall, researchers with the Kepler Planet Hunters program announced that one of the stars they were studying, KIC 8462852, was experiencing brief but dramatic dips in its brightness, leading to speculation that the effect might be caused by extraterrestrial megastructures in orbit around the star.read more