KIC 8462852  or “Tabby’s Star” was made popular in 2015 because of the star’s strange characteristic. This was announced by a team led by astronomer Tabetha Boyaijian of Yale University, hence the name “Tabby’s Star.” NASA’s Kepler space telescope detected fluctuations in the star’s light signature in 2011 and then again in 2013. The star is about 1,500 light years away from Earth. Overtime, …