{"id":3927302,"date":"2026-08-03T07:04:54","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T12:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/a-21-hour-dip-could-help-explain-tabbys-stars-decade-long-dimming-mystery\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T07:04:54","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T12:04:54","slug":"a-21-hour-dip-could-help-explain-tabbys-stars-decade-long-dimming-mystery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/a-21-hour-dip-could-help-explain-tabbys-stars-decade-long-dimming-mystery\/","title":{"rendered":"A 21-hour dip could help explain Tabby&#8217;s star&#8217;s decade-long dimming mystery"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Since 2016, an ordinary-looking F-type star called KIC 8462852, nicknamed Tabby&#8217;s star, has behaved anything but ordinarily. In a new study published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society on July 6, researchers revisited this star to find out what is really causing its irregular dimming.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-07-hour-dip-tabby-star-decade.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since 2016, an ordinary-looking F-type star called KIC 8462852, nicknamed Tabby&#8217;s star, has behaved anything but ordinarily. In a new study published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society on July 6, researchers revisited this star to find out what is really causing its irregular dimming. <\/p>\n<p>Go to Source<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3927302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3927302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3927302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3927302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3927302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}