KIC 8462852: The Plot Thickens

An exploration of the strange happenings at the star KIC 8462852 and what they might mean.

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Papers:

"A 1,574-Day Periodicity of Transits Orbiting KIC 8462852", Sacco et al., 2018

Snakes Have Legs "John Michael Godier"

Music:

[chartreusemoose]

My favorite thing about Tabby's star is every few years, it pops back in with some new weirdness. At this point, the most boring and mundane explanation possible would still be fascinating because if/when scientists ever figure it out, there's probably going to be a lot to learn from it.

[joeblackman]

A brilliant update! As always a great companion when I’m feeling under the weather 🤧, also when I’m feeling fine of course! Thanks John

[Darxide]

I think the worst part is that even if this turns out to be evidence of an advanced civilization there's still nothing we can do about it. Except watch in real time. Never knowing who they are or what they're doing.

[saythebear]

“Shoutout to the sleep crowd”

Wait, this is common? There’s a whole crowd of people that nod off to these like I do?

[No_OneV]

My heart skipped a beat when you mentioned the laser coincidence, and the other oddities seem extremely suspicious too.
Spooky indeed

[samkuzel]

I appreciate your willingness to speculate on this stuff, paired with your humility and sober disclaimers about it probably being an as-of-yet undiscovered natural explanation.
Looking forward to those "decades of content creation" you mentioned.

[Handsomeanthony]

Thanks John, I was having problems getting back to sleep. You’re coming in clutch, as usual.

[greyofpta]

I love it when researchers look for a thing (a laser signal) and find it, then say, "Nah, it's probably nothing." *facepalm*

[Myname-ilvd]

I had no idea there was still mysteries coming from tabby’s star! So exciting can’t wait to see what it is

[TrailRunnerLife]

All the way back to the beginning lol. I've followed this topic and this channel for a long time (I think there were maybe 300 subs back then). The channel has gotten continually bigger and better, but honestly I had pretty much counted Tabby's star out. Very cool.

[AppiusOS]

What a trip it's been. I first stumbled on this channel looking for info about the possible alien megastructure around this star all those years ago. Keep up the great work!

[annastasijaspellman]

Sleep crowd.... That explains why I like to listen to you before bed .. your voice is super relaxing and I enjoy every single one of your videos. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[ZBGregory]

I don't know how people can fall asleep to these videos. Listening to this information makes my brain go into overdrive postulating reasons why this star and our observances seem out of the ordinary. Thank you for letting me hyperfocus on such an indepth topic.

[johnshepherd]

I love the shout-out to the sleep crowd 🤣😂 I love you for sleep but I listen in the day too. I always listen to one I've heard and know well for sleep. Daytime listening is for stuff I haven't.

[iambiggus]

Wait hold up, the only laser signal they got happened to be from a star already doing weird shit? Man, that's a huge coincidence.

[johnholly]

John Michael Godier and Anton Petrov are my favorite YouTube channels. Thank you for your content.

[AJScraps]

Event Horizon and JMG always inspiring *new insight!* 🤯

[antonybr]

Dammmm. 15 minutes ago, I was searching for a Event Horizon podcast just to realize that I listened all of them. and now just 1-minute before sleep this video appears. Thanks, Mr Godier.

[jasonl]

I was literally in the process of scrolling through my feed trying to find a video to fall asleep to

[sandraaronson]

I absolutely love your work, so I hope you don't take this the 17:33 wrong way, but your voice literally helps me fall asleep. You're not boring at all, just very soothing. Thanks for all you do for us!