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So what's the star called? Even if it's just a boring numbers-and-letters name it'd still be nice to know.

Apparently it's just KIC 8462852, unfortunately, also known as TYC 3162-665-1 and 2MASS J20061546+4427248. Snappy names.

The paper says it's 12th magnitude so it's way, way dimmer than is visible to the human eye.

I wanted to know this as well and looked up the research paper. It's called "KIC 8462852"