# Forget Tabby's Star -- Ross 128 is where it's at

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**Created:** [July 17, 2017, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forget-tabbys-star-ross-128-is-where-its-at/791536 "2017-07-17T23:17:32Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 17, 2017, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forget-tabbys-star-ross-128-is-where-its-at/791536/1 "2017-07-17T23:17:32Z")

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[Ross 128](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_128) is a very close star. It’s only 11 light years away and there are only a dozen star systems closer than that. [Tabby’s Star](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KIC_8462852) is over 1000 ly away. There may be aliens there, but they ain’t going to be talking to us.

Recently, they’ve found [strange radio signals from Ross128](https://www.theverge.com/2017/7/17/15982656/arecibo-observatory-ross-128-red-dwarf-radio-waves-signal). Pretty certain they’re from deep space (i.e. not produced by something on Earth or in the Solar System), but not like anything they’ve seen before. Yeah, they’ll say they’re from a new kind of solar flare or something. You going to believe that?

Now I’m not saying it’s space aliens, but…