Released: 10 March 2016

Duration: 18 minutes, 1 second

In Part 1, Paul Carr provides a non-technical explanation of why the star informally known as Tabby's Star (KIC 8462852) is so perplexing after all. What was observed, and why doesn't it fit a conventional explanation?

Please see our companion blog post at Dream of the Open Channel.

Written, Produced and Read by Paul Carr

Music by Jason Robinson