Tags: Star.
KIC 12557548 is a K-type main-sequence star located in the constellation Cygnus. The star is particularly important as measurements taken by the Kepler spacecraft indicate that the variations in the star’s light curve cover a range from about 0.2% to 1.3% of the star’s light being blocked. This indicates that there may be a rapidly disintegrating planet a prediction not yet conclusively confirmed in orbit around the star losing mass at a rate of 1 Earth mass every billion years.
