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any astronomer's on /sci/?

i'm doing research on boyajian's star at caltech.

let's talk astronomy.

>> No.8944854

bumping since astronomy needs more attention on /sci/
Dont' know shit about astronomy though. Can't contribute :P

>> No.8944889

Meme star.

>> No.8944911

>>8944566
>I'm not a Astronomer, just a ECE student but
I think that it's just a bunch of debris, asteroids or planets close together.

May be natural, Not artificially created by Intelligent Species.

>> No.8944922

>>8944889
I agree.

This Star is a Meme

>> No.8945008

Could you explain how this stars fluctuations are different from say that of a planets passing in front of it? I don't understand what is so irregular about it's fluctuations.

>> No.8945034

About sol sized gas giant with big rings and some trojans neatly explains the entire phenomenon without having to involve ridiculous things like aliens.

>> No.8945046

>>8945034
>a physical impossibility and some asteroids that are so small as to be undetectable from vast distances neatly explain it

?????

>> No.8945053

>>8944566
Nope, just us astrologers. Would you like a reading? Only $59.99 plus tip.

>> No.8945831

>>8944566
OP of this thread here.

i'm using data from kplr and using astropy to plot light curves from FITS files, but i can't figure it out. anyone have experience with this?

>> No.8946012

>>8945008
A planet the size of Neptune would cause the star to dim 0.05%. The largest dimming I recall for this star is 22%. We appear to be looking at a....thing larger than the star itself that is nevertheless very clearly not a star, which doesn't make sense because only stars are that big.

>> No.8946025

>>8946012
I forgot to add that the star has dimmed 15% overall since the first photos we have of it. It's as if whatever produced the mega-object/cloud/whatever is also spreading shit around the system in general.

>> No.8946033

>>8946025
>>8946012
It could just be having the plasma somehow "sucked" out of it, making it lose mass, and this size and intensity. Makes no sense to me though as to exactly what would do that besides another star, but then there wouldn't be light level fluctuations.

>> No.8947008

>>8946012
And what about a planet the size of uranus...?

>> No.8947016

>>8944566
How much is OP pic dumb on 1 to 10 scale?

>> No.8947899
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8947899

>>8944911
the weird thing is that a planet the size of Jupiter dims a star's light in about 5%, meme star's lights dims about 20%, and in irregular patterns of time, not saying there are ayylmao out there, its just that its pretty weird