06-23-2018, 05:27 PM
Thought it might be appropriate to start posting the odd update given things are relatively unchanged with the eruption in Puna, but will only do the odd update that people might see in the news for now.
Mella - just to answer your question, I don't know right now but know it's making news every so often. I'll try and find out (KIC 8462852 is Tabby's star which a few people thought might be caused by an alien structure around the star - a Dyson Sphere, but that's very unlikely).
AT2018cow is making the news right now, e.g.,
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/a...-away.html
The object is a real mystery. It was discovered about a week ago by the Keck on MK and is being followed up by other telescopes on the mountain. At UKIRT, we're actually observing the object as I write this and have been doing each night for a few nights and will continue to do so each night for a while. It's a bizarre object that could be several different things, but right now no-one knows what it really is.
Wikipedia probably has the most up-to-date publicly available information right now:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AT2018cow
Mella - just to answer your question, I don't know right now but know it's making news every so often. I'll try and find out (KIC 8462852 is Tabby's star which a few people thought might be caused by an alien structure around the star - a Dyson Sphere, but that's very unlikely).
AT2018cow is making the news right now, e.g.,
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/a...-away.html
The object is a real mystery. It was discovered about a week ago by the Keck on MK and is being followed up by other telescopes on the mountain. At UKIRT, we're actually observing the object as I write this and have been doing each night for a few nights and will continue to do so each night for a while. It's a bizarre object that could be several different things, but right now no-one knows what it really is.
Wikipedia probably has the most up-to-date publicly available information right now:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AT2018cow