KIC 8462852 (IMAGE)

Carnegie Institution for Science

KIC 8462852

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Brightness of KIC 8462852 as a function of time. The solid line represents the authors' best estimate of the brightness of the star during the Kepler mission, while the shaded region represents the uncertainty on the brightness at any time. The authors find the star's brightness slowly decreased over time until early 2012, when it rapidly dimmed in brightness by 2 percent over six months.

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Image is courtesy of Ben Montet.

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