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Unseen planet or brown dwarf may have hidden 'rare' fading star
- February 12, 2026 at 12:00 AM
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One of the longest stellar dimming events ever observed was likely caused by the gigantic saucer-like rings of either an unseen brown dwarf or "super-Jupiter" blocking its host star's light, astronomers say. For decades, the star—which sits 3,200 light-years from Earth and is about twice as big as our sun—had been observed as stable, but at the end of 2024 it faded dramatically.
Originally published at Phys.org