[ExI] Boyajian's Star survey completed, analysis in progress

[BillK]

One of The Most Mysterious Stars in The Galaxy Could Soon Be Explained
19 September 2023     By Michelle Starr

<https://www.sciencealert.com/one-of-the-most-mysterious-stars-in-the-galaxy-could-soon-be-explained>

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Led by astronomer Massimo Stiavelli of the Space Telescope Science
Institute (STScI), a team has taken observations of Boyajian's Star
using the James Webb Space Telescope, and is undertaking to decipher
them.

Stiavelli and his colleagues hope that JWST observations, collected in
near- and mid-infrared with NIRSpec and MIRI, will help narrow it
down. Especially because infrared wavelengths penetrate dust more
efficiently than shorter wavelengths, and JWST is a powerful infrared
telescope.

We don't have any further answers yet – the researchers are probably
hard at work analyzing the new spectra, and working out what they mean
– but since the program has been marked as completed, it hopefully
won't be long now.
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BillK