[ExI] tabby's star dimming again

[spike]

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Subject: [ExI] tabby's star dimming again

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

 

Here's the curve!  There is no known natural phenomenon that can do this
without leaving one helllll of an IR signature.

 



 

 

Johnny wan Clarknobi!  Where are ye, me lad?  How the hell can a star do
this?  Stars don't go there.  What's your theory sir?

 

spike

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