Sentences with phrase «alien megastructure star»
You may know it as Tabby's Star, or the «Alien Megastructure Star.»
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The first observations of Tabby's star flickering in real time have put the last nails in the «it's - an - alien - megastructure» coffin.
If an alien megastructure indeed encircles a star known as KIC 8462852, it's 1,500 years old and no one may be home anymore.
Tabby's star is probably just dusty, and still not an alien megastructure.
Breathless news stories were calling KIC 8462852 the «alien megastructure» star.
KIC 8462852 or «Tabby's star» has dimmed like this several times before, prompting some researchers to suggest that the megastructures of an advanced alien civilization might be blocking its light.
And when astronomers discovered a star in 2015 whose light seems to occasionally get blocked by something big, one researcher proposed it was an alien megastructure.
Speculation to account for KIC 8462852's dips in brightness has ranged from it having swallowed a nearby planet to an unusually large group of comets orbiting the star to an alien megastructure.
Having examined a host of natural explanations for the odd behavior of Boyajian's star and found them lacking, we can now consider the most sensational possibility — an alien megastructure, akin to what Dyson described more than half a century ago.
In a subsequent paper submitted to The Astrophysical Journal, Jason Wright and colleagues at Penn State University speculated about other causes, including alien megastructures built to harvest energy while orbiting the star.
Or was it alien megastructures built to harvest the star's energy?
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Several theories abound to explain the star's unusual light patterns, including that an alien megastructure is orbiting the star.
IF THERE ever was an alien megastructure orbiting Tabby's star, it has long since crumbled to dust.
A fresh model that might explain the so - called «alien megastructure» star evokes only natural phenomena, such as a ringed planet that puts Saturn to shame and clouds of comets that contain more mass than Jupiter.
Jason Wright, associate professor of astronomy and astrophysics at Pennsylvania State University, who initially proposed the possibility of an alien megastructure, tweeted: «@tsboyajian's star is dipping.
An alien megastructure could not be the reason behind the mysterious dimming of Tabby's Star.
The reason the WTF star is famous is the hypothesis put forward to explain the dimming by Penn State astronomer Jason Wright: That what's orbiting the star could be a «swarm of megastructures,» alien - built energy collectors, much like terrestrial solar panels.
For the last two years, the star's bizarre behavior has confounded astronomers, who have invoked several ideas — a hypothesis involving a gigantic «alien megastructure» being proffered only half in jest — in their attempt at an explanation.
An oddly dimming star located 1,500 light - years from Earth is causing all sorts of commotion in the scientific community, leading some to speculate that it may be some sort of alien megastructure.
The star exhibits weird fluctuations in its brightness, leading a few astronomers to propose — among many other ideas — that maybe a swarm of alien megastructures is orbiting around the object.
«Astronomers believe bizarre light patterns from a star millions of miles away to be alien megastructures» offered one article, and another claimed: «Astronomers think they have found an alien megastructure.»
Even before the possible (but not suuuuper likely) «alien megastructure» candidate known as Boyajian's Star or Tabby's Star, there were several searches for similar megastructures.
Other scientists have jumped in on the task of explaining these dips with suggestions ranging from weird internal variations with the WTF star itself to unfinished alien megastructures.