«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.
Astronomers are still trying to figure
out the nature of the brightness changes, which has been attributed to anything from comets to an uneven ring of dust to the less likely explanation that it is an
alien megastructure.