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October 15th, 2015 
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The Most Mysterious Star in Our Galaxy
October 14th, 2015
Via: The Atlantic:
When I spoke to Boyajian on the phone, she explained that her recent paper only reviews “natural� scenarios. “But,� she said, there were “other scenarios� she was considering.
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.
“When [Boyajian] showed me the data, I was fascinated by how crazy it looked,� Wright told me. “Aliens should always be the very last hypothesis you consider, but this looked like something you would expect an alien civilization to build.�
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