The Mysterious Tabby’s Star: A Unique Celestial Phenomenon Defying Physics for Astronomers

Liputan6.com, Jakarta – Stars are celestial bodies that emit light and heat through nuclear fusion reactions in their cores. Bintang made up of very hot gas, consisting mostly of hydrogen and helium, which are the two lightest elements.

Stars shine by burning hydrogen into helium in their cores and then forming heavier elements. Stars are the most recognizable astronomical objects and represent the most basic building blocks of galaxies.

The sun is the largest star in the solar system, the closest star to Earth at a distance of approximately 149,680,000 kilometers. As the number of stars that have been discovered increases, it turns out that there are some stars that are very strange and disturb astronomers.

Because these stars do not obey the generally accepted rules of physics. Launching the Space page on Friday (10/05/2024), here are the starsa unique star in the universe.

1. Bintang Tabby

Tabby’s Star or Tabby’s Star is one of the most mysterious stars in the world universe. This star was first discovered by the Planet Hunters project in 2011.

Then, an astronomer from the United States named Tabetha “Tabby” S. Boyajian discovered strange and irregular fluctuations in this star in 2015. Tabby’s star is 1,500 light years from Earth.

This star has interesting and unusual activities. The light of Tabby’s Star can decrease to different degrees of decrease and it happens in different time frames as well.

Tabby’s Star has a very large size. This star, also known as KIC 8462852, is 50 percent larger than the sun and also 1,000 degrees hotter.

A unique star This was first discovered by citizen scientists or lay workers. The citizen scientists are members of the Planet Hunters project.

This project allows anyone to find planets in the Kepler data. In addition, further observations of this star were also made by amateur astronomers who had no formal astronomy education.

Some of the amateur astronomers involved in observing Tabby’s Star were Franky Dubois (retired supervisor at a seat belt factory), Ludwig Logie (safety coordinator in the construction industry) , and Steve Rau (trainer at a Belgian railway company) . Then between January and December 2016, researchers used ultraviolet light to observe the Tabby Star using Swift.