Sentences with phrase «percent dips in brightness»

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.

Among them was Bill Borucki, a space scientist who persuaded nasa to launch a telescope that looks for a 0.01 percent dip in brightness from faraway stars when planets pass in front of them.

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But this star had deep dips in brightness — up to 22 percent.

After analyzing data from the Kepler Space Telescope, scientists discovered huge dips in KIC 8462852's brightness that lasted between five and 80 days, with the star sometimes losing as much as 20 percent of its luminosity.

Even though the reality was much different, the fact remained that the brightness dips that have been observed around KIC 8462852 were as high as 22 percent (much too high to have been caused by any transiting planets) and very chaotic in nature, giving credence to the notion that they could have indeed been the result of alien astro - engineering on a very large scale.

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.