Tabby Star's Mysterious Fade (IMAGE)

Columbia University

Tabby Star's Mysterious Fade

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A new Columbia study suggests chunks of an exomoon's dusty outer layers of ice, gas, and carbonaceous rock may be accumulating in a disk surrounding Tabby's Star, blocking the star's light and making it appear to gradually fade.

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NASA/JPL-Caltech

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