The most mysterious star in the universe | Tabetha Boyajian

Something massive, with roughly 1,000 times the area of Earth, is blocking the light coming from a distant star known as KIC 8462852, and nobody is quite sure what it is. As astronomer Tabetha Boyajian investigated this perplexing celestial object, a colleague suggested something unusual: Could it be an alien-built megastructure? Such an extraordinary idea would require extraordinary evidence. In this talk, Boyajian gives us a look at how scientists search for and test hypotheses when faced with the unknown.

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[Hamza-tjxq]

alien chef commander : " Bring me this Tabetha snitch "

[glashoppah]

Actual scientist, speaking with precision: "one of the most mysterious stars in our galaxy." Marketing person working for TED: "The most mysterious star in the universe".

[Arsenic]

And she is too humble to mention that this star is named after her: Tabby's star. There are not many stars named after people, maybe a hundred in total (and I'm not one of them 😁)

[mcs]

After watching this, I feel like earth might be the group project of alien students somewhere up there

[nikolateslaize]

I am one of those volunteers and I am really proud. Seeing eclipsing binaries and possible exo planets is beyond fascinating.

[awoken]

Great, if we find aliens and they look into our history of extra terrestrial movies, they would see that 90% of the time, we kill them.

[danielabilez]

She is very good in her presenation. She is believably direct without being arrogant. Her voice moves and pulls you along.
Good job.
For her, the audience, the viewers:
Merry Christmas and a prosperous new year

[phil]

Mars is currently very visible at night from the UK, and on late night walks with my dog, I often find myself just staring up at it and the stars surrounding it. The word awesome is used far too easily these days, but the sky at night is, truly awesome.

[tristanrylan]

"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence."

Take notes, flat earthers.

[Beanie-Sandals]

I really love what she ended on.
"What will it mean if we find another star like this? And what will it mean if we don't?"
If we don't find anything like this again it could possibly rule out natural phenomena,
and lean towards a more alien hypothesis.

[johnhough]

The older I get the more I realise my own ignorance. But, for me the biggest mystery is that of time and time alone must be properly understood before we can get anywhere with understanding anything else.
This lady is gentle with us dummies, for which I am grateful; well done!

[PlanetXMysteries-pjnm]

I can't express enough how grateful I am for your channel. Your videos have helped me understand complex scientific concepts in an easily digestible way

[rodionromanovich]

Thought Christopher Walken was the most mysterious star in the universe

[JMsoo]

Imagine hundreds of years from today maybe this clip will be seen as: "This was the first time we noticed

[hafsasharmin]

I'm here from a book where I've read about tabetha and I thought tabetha is a male person but she is 'she' 🥰🥰🥰And of course sooo much proud of you🥰
(I'm a bagladeshi so I couldn't catch the name)

[bluesmon]

Would it be helpful to have the Webb telescope train its sights on the star for a while?

[trent]

Sounds like it wasn't the star that was mysterious but the "thing" that passed in front of it!

[breannathompson]

I got in trouble watching this in class, but then I showed my teacher and since it was science class, she let us watch it on the projector. #lucky

[chrisromoser]

thank you Tabetha, so interesting to hear of this

[Dra]

I never thought the photometer would be able to detect this so accurately, I thought that it would be interfered with with all types of stray space signals and everything but it works perfectly