Astronomers Examine the Circumstellar Dust Around KIC 8462852

A new measurement of the dust around KIC 8462852 reveals that it seems to be consistent with the breakup of a cluster of Halley-like comets. The Kepler satellite was designed to search for Earth-sized planets in the habitable zone of stars by measuring dips in a star’s brightness as orbiting planets move across the stellar […]
The post Astronomers Examine the Circumstellar Dust Around KIC 8462852 appeared first on SciTech Daily.