Light curve Sonification of KIC 8462852 (Boyajian's Star)

You are listening to a sonified lightcurve. A lightcurve is essentially a graph that tells us how the brightness of an object changes over time. The change in pitch and intensity of the sound is directly related to how bright or dim the lightcurve of Tabby's Star was getting over time.

Some theories suggest that the dips in brightness were caused by a massive planet and a cloud of Trojan asteroids that obscured some of Tabby Star's light. Perhaps the most puzzling aspect is that while the Milky Way is estimated to contain billions of stars, astronomers have yet to discover any star in our Galaxy that resembles Tabby's Star.

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If you would like to learn more about Tabby's Star here are some of my favorite articles and videos:
- Original paper on Tabby's Star - https://arxiv.org/abs/1509.03622 (Boyajian et al. 2016)
- Ted talk by Dr. Boyajian - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gypAj...
- Talk by Dr. Davenport on Tabby's Star - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMQXi...

Data courtesy of National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) & Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI)

This project was leveraged through the use of open-source software in Python:
- This project made use of Lightkurve, a Python package for Kepler and TESS data analysis (Lightkurve Collaboration, 2018) - https://docs.lightkurve.org/index.html
- Astronify - https://astronify.readthedocs.io/en