VISUAL ARCHIVE / IMAGE STORY
Three Stars, Separate Records
An imagined grouping evokes paired disturbances reported in observations of three different stars.
Similar paired disturbances have been reported in observations of HD 89389, 51 Pegasi, and HD 12051. Their timings differ, but the resemblance raises the possibility of a shared physical mechanism. No common astronomical source or artificial transmitter has been established.
THE OBSERVATION
What we can actually see.
The 2025 journal paper reports the HD 89389 pair and a comparison with an earlier record. A subsequent conference paper discusses three paired events in different stars and proposes synchronized telescopes. The 4.4-second separation belongs to the two observed disturbances in HD 89389’s light; it is not a measured gravitational-lensing delay.
THE ILLUSTRATION
What the artwork imagines.
The stars are composed together for illustration. Their spacing, surfaces, wavefronts and shared background do not show their real arrangement or a common traveling object. The artwork is not a direct astronomical observation.
FROM THE ILLUSTRATED ARTICLE
The story that inspired it.
The article follows an unusual optical record into competing explanations and a possible timing experiment. Similar paired disturbances have been reported in observations of HD 89389, 51 Pegasi, and HD 12051. Their timings differ, but the resemblance raises the possibility of a shared physical mechanism. No common astronomical source or artificial transmitter has been established.
Read A Star Blinked Twice. Whatever Caused It May Be Much Closer to Earth.CHECK THE RECORD
The image interprets the research below. Follow the original work for the measurements and limits behind the scene.
Stanton (2025): Unexplained starlight pulses found in optical SETI searches — Acta Astronautica Stanton (2025): Telescope Arrays to Solve a Double Optical Pulse Mystery — SAS proceedings, pp. 79–84OTHER IMAGE STORIES
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