Tabby's Star
English
Etymology
Tabby+star. From Tabetha, from the discovery by Tabetha S. Boyajian and her team, of the unusual variability in brightness of this star.
Proper noun
- (astronomy) A star in Cygnus constellation, Milky Way Galaxy. A star that dramatically dimmed in an odd non-repeating pattern, that was suspected to be due to a partial Dyson swarm, indicating a extraterrestrial megastructure construct and thus a sign of intelligent aliens.
Synonyms
Hypernyms
- class-V star
- F-V star
- main-sequence star
- star
- type-F star
- variable star
- yellow-white dwarf
- yellow-white dwarf star
- yellow-white star
Coordinate terms
- LGM-1
- Wow! Signal
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