[ExI] tabbys star in discover

[Stuart LaForge]

On 2024-07-24 22:06, spike jones via extropy-chat wrote:
> Discover still sometimes publishes some interesting stuff.  This month
> has a pretty good Tabby's star article:
> 
> Is Tabby's Star a Swarm of Extraterrestrial Structures? | Discover
> Magazine [1]
> 
> spike
> 
> Links:
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> [1] 
> https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/is-tabbys-star-a-swarm-of-extraterrestrial-structures

I think it is ironic that the Discover article concludes by saying that 
the future directions for researching Tabby’s Star is,
"Now, scientists are turning to the James Webb Space Telescope in hopes 
for more clarity. Using the giant infrared telescope, astronomers have 
gathered more data to further constrain the possible configurations of 
dust around the star. Meanwhile, NASA’s TESS satellite detected two dips 
in 2019 unlike anything from even Kepler – they resembled a planet 
passing by."

The James Webb Space Telescope spent 5.5 hours looking at Tabby's star 
last year in the summer of 2023 and the research group has been sitting 
on the data for a full year without so much as peep.

https://www.stsci.edu/jwst/science-execution/approved-programs/guaranteed-time-observations
https://www.stsci.edu/jwst/phase2-public/2757.pdf
https://x.com/chrislintott/status/1693495681388851259?s=46&t=OpPUIDvVBZHl5Ax_0bX7aw

Why the are they keeping their observations a secret? What the hell did 
they see?

Stuart LaForge