Tabby’s star has provoked so much excitement over the past year that UC Berkeley’s Breakthrough Listen project is devoting hours of time on the Green Bank radio telescope to see if it can detect any signals from intelligent extraterrestrials.
The X-ray emissions were discovered by chance beyond the Milky Way and no one really knows what is causing them.
A star with the unassuming name of KIC 8462852 in the constellation Cygnus has been raising eyebrows both in and outside of the scientific community for the past year.
To find out what's going on around the weirdest star in the galaxy, astronomers are turning to crowdfunding.
