Sentences with phrase «also dips in brightness»

KIC 8462852 also dips in brightness, but in a much more abnormal way; its brightness will dip by as much as 20 percent for irregular periods of time — anywhere between five to 80 days.

Not exact matches

Using additional observations from the 10 - meter Keck telescope on Mauna Kea, Hawaii, and from the 5 - meter Hale Telescope on Palomar Mountain in California, Johnson and his team could also confirm that the observed brightness dips were indeed due to planets.
They also did not confront the mystery of the major 20 - percent dips in brightness that Kepler observed while studying the Cygnus field of its primary mission.
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