[ExI] tabbys star in discover
Stuart LaForge
avant at sollegro.com
Thu Jul 25 10:14:11 UTC 2024
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:
> ------
> [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
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