The Kepler Space Telescope is the spacecraft that has been observing distant stars to detect those which have planets surrounding them; it has found quite a few.
In 2011 analysis suggested "a star was emitting a light pattern that looked stranger than any of the others Kepler was watching.
The light pattern suggests there is a big mess of matter circling the star, in tight formation. If blind nature deposited this mess around the star, it must have done so recently. Otherwise, it would be gone by now. Gravity would have consolidated it, or it would have been sucked into the star and swallowed, after a brief fiery splash.
Jason Wright, an astronomer from Penn State University, is set to publish an alternative interpretation of the light pattern. SETI researchers have long suggested that we might be able to detect distant extraterrestrial civilizations, by looking for enormous technological artifacts orbiting other stars. Wright and his co-authors say the unusual star’s light pattern is consistent with a 'swarm of megastructures,' perhaps stellar-light collectors, technology designed to catch energy from the star.
The [chief investigators] are writing up a proposal. They want to point a massive radio dish at the unusual star, to see if it emits radio waves at frequencies associated with technological activity."
These guys think, . . . maybe, . . . just maybe, . . . there's an alien technological society inhabiting this star system.
Ref: The Atlantic
If this hypothesis turns out to be true, DonDiego suggests everyone be very quiet, . . . so's they don't notice that anyone is here. If they've got megastructures orbiting their star we really don't want them to know we're here.
In 2011 analysis suggested "a star was emitting a light pattern that looked stranger than any of the others Kepler was watching.
The light pattern suggests there is a big mess of matter circling the star, in tight formation. If blind nature deposited this mess around the star, it must have done so recently. Otherwise, it would be gone by now. Gravity would have consolidated it, or it would have been sucked into the star and swallowed, after a brief fiery splash.
Jason Wright, an astronomer from Penn State University, is set to publish an alternative interpretation of the light pattern. SETI researchers have long suggested that we might be able to detect distant extraterrestrial civilizations, by looking for enormous technological artifacts orbiting other stars. Wright and his co-authors say the unusual star’s light pattern is consistent with a 'swarm of megastructures,' perhaps stellar-light collectors, technology designed to catch energy from the star.
The [chief investigators] are writing up a proposal. They want to point a massive radio dish at the unusual star, to see if it emits radio waves at frequencies associated with technological activity."
These guys think, . . . maybe, . . . just maybe, . . . there's an alien technological society inhabiting this star system.
Ref: The Atlantic
If this hypothesis turns out to be true, DonDiego suggests everyone be very quiet, . . . so's they don't notice that anyone is here. If they've got megastructures orbiting their star we really don't want them to know we're here.
