Comet fragments best explanation of mysterious dimming star

Wednesday, November 25, 2015 - 11:40 in Astronomy & Space

Was it a catastrophic collision in the star’s asteroid belt? A giant impact that disrupted a nearby planet? A dusty cloud of rock and debris? A family of comets breaking apart? Or was it alien megastructures built to harvest the star’s energy? Just what caused the mysterious dimming of star KIC 8462852? Massimo Marengo, an […]

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