Melting Exomoon May Explain Long-Term Dimming of Milky Way’s ‘Most-Mysterious Star’0
- From Around the Web, Space
- September 21, 2019
A team of astrophysicists from Columbia University proposes that the strange long-term dimming of the KIC 8462852 star (also known as Tabby’s star or Boyajian’s star) is the result of a disk of debris — torn from a melting moon – that is accumulating and orbiting the star.