You wouldn't know it, but astronomy has its own special blend of sexism. Jason Wright illustrates the point in his first entry about KIC 8462852.

I’ve decided to call it “Boyajian’s Star“. Prof. Boyajian herself calls it the “WTF” star, ostensibly after the subtitle of her paper (“Where’s the Flux?”, natch). Early on during the media firestorm, ( Read more... )

Since last night, I've decided I'm going to be okay if the strangeness around KIC 8462852 (a.k.a. Tabby's Star) turns out to be an oddity in interstellar space or something a bit more prosaic ( Read more... )

While I slept, my brain was ruminating over a video of Jason Wright at Penn State discussing artifact SETI which tangented Tabby's Star ( Read more... )

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