Sentences with word «megastructure»

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.

Tabby's star captured the public imagination in 2015 when researchers suggested that megastructures of an advanced civilisation might be blocking its light.

It's bad enough that they restricted the number of megastructures in the previous patch, but this senseless clamp on superweapons mechanics just perpetuates a trend that will undoubtedly ruin the game in the long run.

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.

An artist's illustration of an alien megastructure around KIC 8462852.

Though KIC 8462852, also known as Tabby's star, is probably not host to an alien megastructure like a Dyson Sphere or an orbiting...

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Media interest went viral last October when a group of astronomers from Pennsylvania State University cited that the «bizarre light curve» of KIC 8462852, popularly known as Tabby's star, was «consistent with» a swarm of alien - constructed megastructures.

The plan, devised by architect Leslie Martin, was to replace them with a ziggurat - section megastructure built in concrete.

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.

«That almost absolutely ruled out the alien megastructure scenario, unless it's an alien microstructure,» Meng says.

These ghost cities are meant to be sprawling wastelands of empty streets and uninhabited megastructures, without a human being in sight.

Concrete megastructures lurk in the polluted haze of construction sites as streetlights turn on in the distance, illuminating nothing.

The alien megastructure hypothesis would have to be considered seriously if all natural hypotheses are ruled out.

«Tabby's Star: Alien megastructure not the cause of dimming of the «most mysterious star in the universe».»

There has been no shortage of proposed explanations that have been put forth in order to account for the unusual observations, from the more mundane ones which include the presence of cometary fragments and large disk of debris from planetary collisions within the star system, to the more imaginative and fascinating ones which have invoked the presence of an extraterrestrial super-civilisation that is in the process of constructing gigantic megastructures around the star itself.

«This pretty much rules out the alien megastructure theory, as that could not explain the wavelength - dependent dimming,» said Huan Meng, at the University of Arizona, Tucson, who is lead author of the new study published in The Astrophysical Journal.

Wright explained later in a blog post that he has been working on a theory about how Kepler might be able to detect «planet - sized megastructures — solar panels, ring worlds, telescopes, beacons, whatever» that are orbiting planets.

You may know it as Tabby's Star, or the «Alien Megastructure Star.»

Or was it alien megastructures built to harvest the star's energy?

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«The hypothesis of an alien megastructure around KIC 8462852 is rapidly crumbling apart,» study author Douglas Vakoch, President of SETI International, said in a statement.

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.

If architecture reflects the spirit of an age, our megastructures and drab apartment blocks express the spirit of globalized technology, where a constant flood of new products coexists with a tedious monotony.

The further presupposition is that almost everybody will make better choices for themselves and their families than the options imposed by the megastructures of the welfare state.

Here, too, a clarification is in order with respect to the seventh proposal and touching on the megastructure that is the state.

While the state is the chief «megastructure,» it is joined by corporations, professional associations, organized labor, and a host of others.

The mediating institutions stand between the autonomous individual and the «megastructures» of society, beginning with the state but including also corporate structures and others.

Breathless news stories were calling KIC 8462852 the «alien megastructure» star.

If a large, opaque object — say, an alien megastructure — was blocking the star, then multiple telescopes should see the same level of dimming across many wavelengths of light.

Tabby's star is probably just dusty, and still not an alien megastructure.

And before you ask: No, the observations will not be able to prove that we are looking at an alien megastructure.

This process is thought to have amplified tiny quantum fluctuations in the vacuum, giving rise to the megastructures...

Alien megastructures are out.

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.

What if astronomers were to find strong evidence that KIC 8462852 is indeed enveloped by an alien megastructure?

It could be time to ditch the alien megastructure.

There are still ways to make the hypothesis work: a megastructure swarm might radiate its gathered energy away as radio or laser signals instead of heat; it might not form a spherical swarm but a ring precisely aligned with our line of sight; it might use technology beyond our understanding of physics that emits no heat at all.

Even alien megastructures must obey fundamental physics, so any energy from starlight they intercept must ultimately be radiated away as heat.

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.

Therefore, whatever is passing between us and the star is not opaque, as would be expected from a planet or alien megastructure,» Boyajian said.

«This latest research rules out alien megastructures, but it raises the plausibility of other phenomena being behind the dimming,» Wright said.