[ExI] tabby's star dimming again

[spike]

Whoa!  Check this!

 

http://www.popsci.com/alien-megastructure-star-dimming-again

 

 


That weird 'alien megastructure' star is dimming again right now


ASTRONOMERS ARE SCRAMBLING TO TAKE MEASUREMENTS.

By  <http://www.popsci.com/popsci-authors/sarah-fecht> Sarah Fecht 5 hours
ago

 

 

ILLUSTRATION OF THE STAR KIC 8462852

The weird light blips coming from this star might be caused by a family of
comets or collision debris, but scientists don't really know.

NASA/JPL-Caltech

In late 2015, astronomers noticed
<http://www.popsci.com/have-we-detected-alien-megastructures-around-distant-
star> something absurd happening around a distant star. Something massive
seemed to be blocking as much as 20 percent of the star's light.

 

That's way too much to be a planet. It might be comets, or maybe an
alien-made Dyson swarm. The problem is that
<http://www.popsci.com/could-black-hole-be-blocking-light-from-that-alien-me
gastructure-star> none of the hypotheses that scientists have come up with
(including the one about aliens) really fits with the data. That leads them
to think that some as-yet-undiscovered phenomena is happening around this
star.

 

 

 

Go there, go now, explain please!

 

spike

 

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