What do you think is orbiting Tabby's Star?

I think my favorite part of your interviews are the questions you ask. You come to the table so prepared on their work, you can hear the surprise at such a question quite often.

When the word coincidence starts to get frequently used you know something interesting is up

That star is John's white whale. He will chase it around perdition's flames, in the Lebaron, before he gives it up!

I can't stop thinking about Tabbys star and Przybylskis star and the Wow signal and Oumuamua and the Tic-tac UAP and its all Johns fault!

Gary is a brilliant guest. Keep bringing him back.

One of three channels I immediately watch when I see posts.

Sounds like we have conclusively shown that whatever is causing the dips is orbiting Tabbys star. Thats progress.

"I'm a science fiction author not a scientists so I can talk about this stuff." The stuff makes your channel great!

This is the mistery that intrigues me the most. I love this subject.

I see Event Horizon and I know the next 45 mins will be great. Informative, entertaining and as factual as possible.. Thank you for all your hard work 👏👏👏

So glad to have an update! Thanks John.. Thanks Gary.

I have been anxiously waiting for this!

The opening gets me hyped every time 🤩🤩

My money's on Mozambique's secret space force. We've all heard the rumors. The fact that they have remained suspiciously quiet on this issue is outright damning.

What a great episode. Perfect road listening while driving up to Takano for a weekend getaway. Tabby's Star just gets more and more interesting.

Hey John! I don’t know if you’ll read this but I just wanted to say thank you. I’ve been watching to your videos for years now. As a blue collar dad, it’s nice to have people like you to keep me informed and curious.

This is genuinely one of the greatest channels on KZfaq!

I've been eagerly awaiting this episode can't wait to hear it

I'm not the only one who wants someone to say, "yeah. This is it."

I listen to this every night. Thank you

The hits just keep coming!

I'm getting goosebumps listening to this. Very interesting.

I know this video is going to make my day a whole lot better !

Loved this ep, this star is so interesting I really hope it's some kind of megastructure that would be awesome and yet terrifying at the same time lol.

Ohhh Thanks so much for the upload. Just love talks like this.

How mind blowing and exciting is it if we are just starting to unravel the thread on what will end up being an alien technosignature..

Best channel on KZfaq hands down. Thanks JMG.

Thank you John, what a great trip I had with you and yr guest😎

Another top class thurs night show! Many thanks from Ireland 🇮🇪

JMG is now the leader of the Tabby's star cult. We all convene every 4.3 years to worship the dips in anticipation of the revelations.

The Star that keeps giving content

Man, way to make a guy feel old. When us late Millenials were in our teens, there was no such thing as someone who had worked in cyber security for 30 years 😂

Man, Mr. Godier, thanks for another episode!

Thanks again John 🎩 fantastic interview as always great questions.. long may tabby dip into our curiosities I believe it's a combination of effects being seen through the keyhole of our observation limit.. the simplest explanation is probably the correct one

Oh this should be a good one!!!! Getting ready to listen soon!!!!!

I love getting updates on Tabby's star :)

Alas, we are seeing Tabby's star 1,470 years in the past.

I can't wait for JWST to take a look...

First thing on my list once I finish work later "Watch this Video" thank you John

I wonder why It is almost sidenoted that some of the dips corresponding to almost exact dates of our calendar. It seem to point that something in our solar system blocks our view, isn't it?

Great show as always! Rock on JMG

Love it John!

Love the Tabby's star content John. Have a good Halloween.

Another fantastic episode for the layman.

Love this show!

Great video and information !

Sick channel name. Love the reference.

this is like... the only pocket of youtube comments full of smart people trying to learn, accepting the fact we know so little... open minded but not blindly accepting conspiracies.. just letting our imaginations run within the limits of reality :) i love you john

Good data archive

Great video very interesting I did have a chuckle when the james webb telescope was suggested it might catch the next 4.3 year cycle ha ☆

Excellent show as always. I never expected to hear Skara Brae (a neolithic village in Orkney) referenced in Event Horizon. I wonder why they named a dimming event after it?

Great interview!☄🌌😎

Great Video Event Horizon

Mirrors orbiting the star!

Ha! Awesome I love this mystery. Great interview Tabby's Star keeps getting weirder. Thanks for the episode!

"Video killed the radio staaaarrr!" >>>> "ooohhwaaaaahhh radio staaaarr!"

What if the object orbiting is shaped like a giant dinner plate that is also spinning on an axis. Occasionally when it comes between us and the star we see the flat portion blocking more of the star. Other times we see it on edge, still there but blocking less of the star. Its axis could be predictable too. Just a thought.

It's alien planet warming mitigation strategies. This stuff is fascinating ! Great content 👍

That paper has a catchy title! (Just kidding. Looking forward to this episode when I get home later!)

It's me - building the megastructure in Stellaris. Hi Eearthlings!

Wonderful episode! Loved it. I like the idea of listening to the star in radio bands. Like you said, if there's an enormous industrial effort to mine the star then one would think a great amount of communication would be involved. But what if we detect nothing? Could that mean that radio communication is old fashioned? We currently don't believe quantum entanglement can be used for communication, so the idea of a futuristic "emissionless communication technology" seems implausible at this time. So whether the hypothetical aliens are using radio or laser coms, it seems like we'd be able to pick up some kind of emissions resulting from their communications.

Why would someone downvote this video? Interesting topic, interesting guest and a great interview.

All this stellar oscillation happened around the time of Pope Vigilius in 553AD

Fascinating...

What I like most about astronomy; politics doesn't influence it. There are some arguments though speculation on the answer is always fun.

Well if John is still talking about tabys star in 20 years I will be listening.

An Error bar is constructed around a data point by analysing the measurement uncertainties associated with the equipment and instruments used - including any possible human sensory uncertainty. All the individual measurement uncertainties are summed to get an error for each variable or parameter. This is why you can irregular error bars across the range of data points.

Does resonance with another dust cloud orbiting further out fit model of %8 dimming

Mankind loves a good mystery.

The question I have since this does seem to be something repeating, implying orbiting, why would these peaks a small part of the orbit apart not be merging due to shared gravity over the decades. These are not in some semi-stable orbital configuration like Lagrange points. Something similar to saturn's shepard moons maybe? The changes in the size of the dips makes me wonder if the period seen might be a beat frequency between different orbits rather than a single orbit/source of dust. This could potentially explain the multiple dips that don't change relative position and the differences in how deep the dips are.

It should be the BORG... Building a huge cube. 😬 Fantastic video, JMG! Thanks a LOT! 😃 Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊

I love the names of science pappers

No one commented the ending? That was a fun twitch!

Instead of dust spreading out can it also be the orbit plane from our side is moving higher or lower? If so, can we extrapolate its shape?

I'm not saying it's aliens, but... I really want it to be aliens.

I think a planet and a moon collided and its orbit shows it's like clockwork but different every time .

I definitely get John's fascination with it. As much as I believe it's something like dust, the constant weirdness keeps my hope alive for intelligence.

There's an intriguing Ted talk about various orbital planes, and durations like 1.5 and 2-day satellite orbits.

Another excellent cast.....I have always wondered, what is the name of the intro music to your show?

Buy the dip!

Here's a hypothesis no one has considered yet... Think Morris Code... But from an alien perspective. They wouldn't have a "code" like ours. But what if it's a sort of bright/dim visual projection? An "alphabet" of some sort. As far as we know from our own history and evolution, so far, all creatures here on earth have developed some form of communication. What if what we're seeing is a "Morris" type language being visually broadcast to the galaxy at large. A shout in the vast void saying, "Here we are!" It would be interesting to have a linguistics / code experts go over all the observation data of Tabby's Star and determine if what we are really seeing as an alien type of Morris Code.

You may need to get Gary on again soon John, maybe every week because this Star is bonkers… more activity this week, a dip on Gary’s predicted 3th of November.

Will JWST be able to shed more light on Tabby's Star? Great interview as always.

Mining could cause the dimming, but I don't think the regularity of events almost to the hour would be a consequence-- that kind of regularity is ballistic orbits, regardless of whether the orbiting object is built or natural. It is a tiny amount of information, but this establishes a couple facts-- 1. periodicity, almost certainly due to an orbit. 2 patterns that vary predictably within a range. I like a double planet of two Jupiters with a massive ring system around each, sometimes side on to us, sometimes face on. And sometimes trading material, tearing up passing comets and asteroids. Etc. If we only need sixteen Jupiters I think a 'temporarily' stable pair of Jupiters with a ring cloud constantly in flux might do both the wild variability we see and the hinted regularity. This would sometimes give us ~1% if two Jupiters were in transit and their rings either consumed or edge-on, and significantly greater dimming if the rings were both face on and/or new material recently added. In between dimming levels when rings are canted at some in between angle. Tides in the rings would be regular, but given our piecemeal observation schedule would appear sporadic due to the long duration kaleidoscope nature of such a system. (Could also be mega-Jupiters). Regardless, precession of multiple rings in some sort of harmonic pattern might explain this. Sometimes we would see all edge on and/or not in transit, the dimming of the star is very minimal. Other times some at a partial angle, face-on while in transit, dimming moderate. Sometimes face on, dimming greater. Or a ring system around the star (and not a planet) with gaps that let light through at some angles and not others, especially if there are multiple rings at angles to each other like one of those Renaissance globes, all precessing from our point of view so sometimes aligned and sometimes not. The question is working out their harmonics. And of course, a ring world of varying breadth, or several ringworlds. Or a system of built rings around each planet in the system, with all the above precession and movements. I am on pins and needles to find out!

Suppose its alien in origin but instead of being one large object its numerous very small ones the size and/or similar properties of dust traveling together. The civilization can harness the energy while at the same time allowing the rest of the light to get through instead of blocking it. In such a case, one of the only ways of confirming this is to physically go there.

Seriously thinking about quitting my current position to pursue a degree in astrobiology 😍

I don't know much about this, but in our own Sun-Earth-Moon system we have no solar eclipses most of the time, partial eclipses part of the time, and total eclipses only rarely. I understand that part of the reason for this is that the moon's orbital plane is tilted a bit from the solar orbital plane. Could we have a star, a planet, and an occluding object in orbit around the planet where the occluding object sometimes passes in front of the star and sometimes doesn't?

I'm curious about the red dwarf binary companion it has at 800AU

Art Bell level........greetings from Sarasota

I think what’s happening is that it’s a solar system in its infancy. They are observing the formation of planets in the stars “dust rings”. The reason the dips become shallower is that the planets that form are colliding with the other planets creating smaller dips. The large dips are the larger planets before they collide. The question is the dips either large or small, are they identical to the dips in the past?

Could the dips be explained by orbital resonance of potential exomoons? That every so often the line up just right and cause a larger dip in light?

Since the dust doesn’t radiate in the IR, would JWST even be able to see it?

Is it plausible, there is a second object, further out or closer, but much bigger, with a periodicity of 8.6yrs? Therefore, when the original dusty objects are transiting from our perspective, this second object or objects coincide the 4.3yr periodicity originale observations?

Could the solar plane be oscillating like a Euler's disc? Or could our perspective replicate that effect??

lets hope JWST launch goes smooth it works and we can finnaly point it at this one :D

Artificial satelite.

How deep is the rabbit hole? TFS, GB :)

Oh boy, and it's already too late over here. To watch now, or not to watch now? Either way, I won't get any sleep.

@36:56 he says "do do" lol....love it. never grow up!