10-15-2015, 10:25 PM
Title is direct quote from The Independent.
Long story short Kepler detected a star that is non-periodically obscured by, what appears to be numerous objects.
In addition to that, the stars luminosity is decreased by 17% every ~750 days,
since the star if an F-type roughly as large as our sun it is kind of worrying.
Even brown dwarf wouldn't obscure it by that much.
Arxiv link: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1509.03622v1.pdf
Long story short Kepler detected a star that is non-periodically obscured by, what appears to be numerous objects.
In addition to that, the stars luminosity is decreased by 17% every ~750 days,
since the star if an F-type roughly as large as our sun it is kind of worrying.
Even brown dwarf wouldn't obscure it by that much.
Arxiv link: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1509.03622v1.pdf