I'm STILL Not Sayin' Aliens. But This Star Is Really Weird.

OK, this is getting pretty weird. First, a little background: You've probably heard of the star KIC 8462852 (though maybe by it's nickname, Tabby's Star, after Tabetha Boyajian, the woman who lead the team that's studying it). It's the star that got a lot of press late last year because it was acting funny. Astronomers poking through the observations of the star by the Kepler spacecraft found it was undergoing a series of apparently random dips in brightness. Some of these dips were serious, wit...