Tabby's Star

the star with mysterious dips · KIC 8462852

1,470 light-years from Earth

Kepler saw this star dim irregularly, once by 22%, with no pattern a planet could make. Its light dims more in blue than in red, the signature of fine dust: most likely uneven clouds of it, perhaps from shattered comets or moons.

• 1,470 light-years · dips of up to 22% lasting days
• the dust clouds are drawn where they could be; nobody has seen them

kind

star

size

2,200,000 km across