Star Vanishes for 200 Days in One of the Longest Cosmic Dimming Events Ever Recorded

Astronomers have reported one of the longest stellar dimming events ever recorded, with a Sun-like star fading by 97 percent for nearly 200 days. Astronomers believe one of the longest stellar dimming episodes ever recorded was caused by enormous, disk-shaped rings surrounding a hidden brown dwarf or a so-called ‘super-Jupiter’ that passed in front of [...]