Released: 24 April 2018

Duration: 10 minutes, 1 second

Paul Carr talks about today's much more accurate distance estimate to Boyajian's Star from Gaia Data Release 2, and what, if anything, this rules out.

Links:

Clemens+ (2018) - Proper Motion of the Faint Star near KIC 8462852 (Boyajian's Star) - Not a Binary System

Boyajian+ (2015) - Where's the Flux?

Interview with Brad Schaefer

Ben Montet Makes a Star Weirder

Castelaz and Barker (2018) - KIC 8462852: Maria Mitchell Observatory Photographic Photometry 1922 to 1991

Gaia DR2

Credits:

Host and Producer: Paul Carr

Music: Jason Robinson