Second 'dimmer switch' star spotted

from The Register on 2016-09-06 01:05 (#1ST3E)

'Tabby's Star' gets a friend and it's even stranger, but let's not do the 'alien megastructure' thing again okay?

One curious case of "what's that?" in astronomy is a puzzle: two gets astrophysicists on the way to an answer. An oddly-dimming star called EPIC 204278916 (EPIC in this article) might help boffins understand the "Dyson sphere" (no, it's not) Tabby's star."

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