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Have astronomers discovered an alien megastructure?

Robertinfremont

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This is a video of about 4 years back and 10 months.

But the fascinating part is it is a TV Woman on CBS talking to Michio Kaku who was once fairly often on TV.

Do any of you have any updates to this story that Kaku says ranks in one of the most important finds in the past 500 years?

Story is that Kepler has found a huge object moving around a Sun that is believed to be human made.

 
Robertinfremont said:


This is a video of about 4 years back and 10 months.

But the fascinating part is it is a TV Woman on CBS talking to Michio Kaku who was once fairly often on TV.

Do any of you have any updates to this story that Kaku says ranks in one of the most important finds in the past 500 years?

Story is that Kepler has found a huge object moving around a Sun that is believed to be human made.

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It's apparently still inconclusive, but more instances of the same phenomenon have been discovered.

'Alien Megastructure' Star May Not Be So Special After All | Space
 
I believe that's tabby's star and they determined recently that it was debris from a moon or something that fell apart.

I could be wrong, I'm posting based on memory. That video was from 2015.
 
I remember hearing about it. The speculation is that the unusually dramatic drop in light could be the result of a Dyson Sphere. Or a "Dyson swarm," which I hadn't heard of before.

The YouTube video showed that the star was called KIC 8462852. I Googled that and found this April, 2018 update from the SETI Institute.

Both the observations and the data analysis are now underway. Once the latter is concluded, we will, of course, make them known here and in the professional journals.

On the basis of historical precedent, it’s most likely that the the dimming of KIC 8462852 is due to natural causes. But in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, any suggestive clues should, of course, be further investigated – and that is what the SETI Institute is now doing.
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Fun stuff!

p.s.: Just found this from Sept 2019: 'Alien Megastructure' Star May Not Be So Special After All | Space
 
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