Alien megastructures info said:Strange dimming pattern viewed by NASAs Kepler Space Telescope suggests mass of alien objects, says PSU researcher
October 15, 2015 3:00PM ET
by Renee Lewis @Renee5Lewis55
A distant star observed through NASAs Kepler Space Telescope features a strange diming pattern that a university researcher says might indicate the presence of alien megastructures.
Jason Wright, a Pennsylvania State University researcher who looks for Earth-like planets with conditions favorable to life, is set to publish a paper with his theory that the pattern is consistent with a swarm of megastructures that are perhaps solar panels designed to capture the stars energy, he told The Atlantic on Tuesday.
The star is surrounded by a cluster of debris thats common among young stars, but not among mature ones like KIC 8462852, said Tabetha Boyajian, a post-doctorate researcher at Yale University who examined the star in detail before sharing her findings with Wright.
The star is located about 1,500 light-years away from Earth, between the Cygnus and Lyre constellations in the Milky Way galaxy. That means that the dimming observed by the telescope was caused by objects that existed around the star in the 6th century CE.
Wed never seen anything like this star, Boyajian told The Atlantic. It was really weird. We thought it might be a bad data but everything checked out.
Boyajian recently authored a paper examining possible natural explanations for the debris. The explanations included instrument defects or a planetary-scale impact that left matter circling the star, the paper said. Another possible explanation is that a nearby star transited through the unusual stars system, bringing a group of comets along with it, it added.
But those explanations were unlikely, as the light pattern didnt appear on any of the other 150,000 stars viewed through the Kepler Space Telescope, Boyajian said.
Wrights soon-to-be-released paper builds on Boyajians findings.
When [Boyajian] showed me the data, I was fascinated by how crazy it looked, Wright told The Atlantic. Aliens should always be the very last hypothesis you consider, but this looked like something you would expect an alien civilization to build.
Other researchers are skeptical of Wrights theory, arguing that the debris is more likely the result of something natural and mundane, such as comets swarming the star. However, most are still intrigued by the findings.
Whether there are aliens constructing huge megastructures to meet their power needs at KIC 8462852, or overwhelmingly more likely its a more natural scenario, this is a pretty weird and interesting star. And its definitely worth investigating further, Phil Plait, an astronomer, wrote in Slate.
Maybe in the ensuing 1,5 millenia the aliens moved on to become one with the Star

Btw, star-power mass harnessing structures seem to be extrapolated by something analogous to a few pixels changing color shade on those screens (?). Not sure about comet swarming- assuming indeed they can note if that would pass from all other visible regions- but maybe a star-event like new stage of collapse or hit by a huge home-system planet?