No need to worry, but alien megastructures spotted in a distant star

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Strange dimming pattern viewed by NASA’s 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 NASA’s 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 star’s energy, he told The Atlantic on Tuesday.
The star is surrounded by a cluster of debris that’s 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.
“We’d 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 star’s system, bringing a group of comets along with it, it added.
But those explanations were unlikely, as the light pattern didn’t appear on any of the other 150,000 stars viewed through the Kepler Space Telescope, Boyajian said.
Wright’s soon-to-be-released paper builds on Boyajian’s 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 Wright’s 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 — it’s a more natural scenario, this is a pretty weird and interesting star. And it’s 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?
 
I saw this. For a long time, the best evidence against the absurdity of the Drake Equation was the apparent lack of inter-solar mega structures.

Now, we might have found one. Or, it could be something totally different. But whatever it is, it is weird.
 
I saw this. For a long time, the best evidence against the absurdity of the Drake Equation was the apparent lack of inter-solar mega structures.

Now, we might have found one. Or, it could be something totally different. But whatever it is, it is weird.

Maybe the alien megastructure (or terastructure in this case) is the universe itself :mischief:
 
I can see a world in a grain of sand. I don't need space structures to be the universe.
 
Stuff like this is why I run seti@home on my BOINC.

It's neat how hard it is to find stuff in space. We've long underestimated its ginormousness. This is only 1400 ly away, but it's taken how many decades to find?
 
So when do we send the stupid message telling them how wonderful we are and how good we have it here?

To a bunch of self involved suckers getting on an alien ship, shouted by a skeptic... "How to Serve Man, its a cook book!" - Outer Limits iirc.
 
That's not that far away.... And we got about 1,500 years before they spot our radio signals.

We should send an invasion fleet. It will probably arrive around the same time theirs reaches us :borg:
 
If that really is a dyson swarm, and they're not all dead, I'd imagine they have optical technology sufficiently advanced to have already spotted us or at least our nice, habitable planet.

I mean it actually is a little terrifying really. If they had a dyson swarm 1,500 years ago they probably had sufficiently advanced interstellar capabilities for a lot longer before this point.
 
We discovered them in the last few, yes? So if they had the same tech we have a couple hundred thousand years ago, they're already here. First they built Phobos, then they built bases on the back side of the moon where they listen to the spacey music heard by Apollo 10, their only mistake was having too much zouzou juice and crashing into Roswell, getting taken by the monkey people. Eventually waking up with a few grays in a CIA drunk tank under 300 meters of solid granite. A bad day.

But that's all double ultra top super secret so don't tell anyone.
 
We just detected them and they are maybe 200 to 300,000 years ahead of us, or maybe a few million? So they detected us a long time ago, when their science was roughly the same as ours. Lets face it, they're already here.
 
We just detected them and they are maybe 200 to 300,000 years ahead of us, or maybe a few million? So they detected us a long time ago, when their science was roughly the same as ours. Lets face it, they're already here.

They are probably us.
 
How could they be that stupid and still build a bunch of stuff around a star? Maybe they created a few test tube hybrid stupid people, I'll grant you that.
 
That star has been called unique in every article I've read. Maybe they built the star? If so, figure out how old the star is and that's how long they've been doing the impossible.

So who will build the first generation ship and go there to say Hi! ???
 
Maybe NASA should clean the lenses of their telescopes once a while to spare as new exciting and life changing megastories?
 
We just detected them and they are maybe 200 to 300,000 years ahead of us, or maybe a few million? So they detected us a long time ago, when their science was roughly the same as ours. Lets face it, they're already here.

They are probably us.

Or dead...( us 200 to 300,000 years from now)
 
Then we should definitely send a colony ship to take possession! "Damn, we were hoping you were dead."

I wonder if a space faring civilization can ever die out.
 
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