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Whattaya thiunk, /sci/?
I'm keeping my money on "planet condensing out of accretion disc, but this seems interesting. Not sure if I buy such a huge ring system, particualrly one that would be disrupted from time to time by the gravitational pull of the star, as mentioned in the article -- I think you'd lose ring material fast in that case.
But it would make for some glorious images, I guess.
https://www.universetoday.com/136945/alien-megastructure-around-tabbys-star-actually-ringed-gas-giant/
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>>9134141
>cant explain it
>call it ringed gas giant
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>>9134141
That desperate pre-hypothesis fails even to explain the irregularities in the dimming. A ringed planet would still be somewhat regular.
And still, what planet can dim the star by 20 percent overnight? And do so over several days??
Fail.
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Basically if the data aligns with what we observe in other systems i think it could be very likely
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>>9134146
Wait, you're saying that an explanation must be incorrect because a phenomenon is previously unexplained,and therefore intrinsically inexplicable?
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>>9134220
>fails even to explain the irregularities in the dimming
It did, though I noted in OP that the explanation seems to me unlikely.
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>>9134225
OK then, what other starts are even remotely like Tabby's star?
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