Mystery Object Blotted Out A Giant Star For 200 Days - National Geographic

Long before KIC 8462852 was a twinkle in Tabitha Boyajian's eye, VVV-WIT-08 nearly vanished for 200 days leaving astronomers scratching their noggins to this very day. Prosaic explanations are humored by Nadia Drake, but everything about this event undermines the explanation of "dust" which opens the doors to other possibilities noted in the article. Closer to home, Jocelyne LeBlanc is among the first to propose this Recent Meteor Over Brazil May Have Been An Interstellar Object. As to how this conclusion was reached remains sketchy and a task for the reader to suss out. (CS)

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from THE ANOMALIST https://on.natgeo.com/3gGf2te