JONAS3: Nějaké výtažky/shrnutí z původního článku na Slate, který mi přijde nejlepší - sice má nejvíce skeptické formulace, ale taky shrnuje nejzajímavější data a vysvětluje, proč žádné "normální" vysvětlení nefunguje
http://www.slate.com/...omy/2015/10/14/weird_star_strange_dips_in_brightness_are_a_bit_baffling.html
KIC 8462852: it’s clear something weird is happening there
The Kepler data for the star are pretty bizarre: There are dips in the light, but they aren’t periodic. They can be very deep; one dropped the amount of starlight by 15 percent, and another by a whopping 22 percent!
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Straight away, we know we’re not dealing with a planet here. Even a Jupiter-sized planet only blocks roughly 1 percent of this kind of star’s light, and that’s about as big as a planet gets. It can’t be due to a star, either; we’d see it if it were. And the lack of a regular, repeating signal belies both of these as well. Whatever is blocking the star is big, though, up to half the width of the star itself!
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The problem with that is that there’s no excess of infrared light from the star. Dust created in such impacts warms up and glows in the IR.
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Comets are a good guess, but it’s hard to imagine a scenario where they could completely block 22 percent of the light from a star; that’s a huge amount. Really huge.