Seek Out Natural Mysteries: Light Curves

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Part I: The Most Mysterious Star in the Galaxy
The star, called KIC 8462852 and nicknamed "Tabby's Star" after Yale University astronomer Tabetha "Tabby" Boyajian, first made news in 2015 when researchers discovered something odd about its light.
These dimming events are far too substantial to be caused by planets crossing the face of the star, so scientists looked for other explanations. Some have even suggested that it might host signs of intelligent alien life -- specifically, a Dyson Sphere, a hypothetical megastructure built around a star to capture as much of its energy as possible to power an advanced civilization.

Part II: What Explanation Can Solve the Puzzle of Tabby's Star?
The realization that the star sometimes gets brighter in addition to periods of dimming is incompatible with most hypotheses to explain its weird behavior.
It remains unknown how long the light curve might last. Could this just be the beginning?

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Director & Host: Jie Wang
Jie Wang in Chinese sounds like "诘问", which means "cross-examine evidence to seek out truth".
Jie is a well-known popular science commentator and communicator in China.
Jie's hardworking and productive. His masterpiece The Shape of Time (Historical Story about Relativity) won the eighth annual Wenjin Award, China's national-level comprehensive book award to encourage public reading. His science fiction novel The Cage of Time won the eighteenth Hundred Flowers Awards for Literary, one of the most professional and authoritative awards on the Chinese mainland.
Jie's self-media radio station Science Has Stories was prized top 10 commercial technology anchors in 2018 and the most commercially valuable anchor in 2019 in Himalaya FM, a Chinese pioneer in live-streaming broadcasts, audiobooks and podcasts.
Jie also acts as the executive secretary of Voice of Science, a science media league to popularize scientific knowledge and disseminate scientific spirit. Voice of Science takes its mission to improve people's scientific literacy, advocate logic and empirical evidence, oppose pseudoscience, and eliminate ignorance and superstition.

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