One thing abouthe scientists on our Planet is that you don’t have beathem
over the head with facts
just leave a Gigantic Unknown Object in outer Space & they’ll figure
out someone had to built it,
NASA’s Kepler
Telescope Discovers a Colossal Artificial Structure Orbiting a Star in Our
Vicinity
NASA’s Kepler
Telescope has stumbled upon one of the most fascinating discoveries so far – a
colossal artificial megastructure believed to have been constructed by an
advanced alien civilization.
Besides Kepler’s
ability of finding small, rocky worlds orbiting distant stars, it can also
detect different space phenomenon like stellar flares, star spots and dusty
planetary rings.
This time however,
Kepler detected the signal of a supposed vast artificial structure orbiting a
star only 1,500 light years away from Earth.
After finishing all
plausible explanations, scientists now believe that this complex structure might
be an artificial construction made by an advanced alien civilization way up on
the Kardashev scale of comparison.
This megastructure
works like a supersized solar array orbiting around its host star, stocking the
energy and sending it back to the source. The size of the structure is so grand
that it’s blocking a considerable fraction of starlight as it spins around its
host.
Normally all the
exoplanets discovered by Kepler have a typical planet-shape, meaning they are
round. This time however, the telescope detected something that isn’t round and
behaves unnatural.
A paper has been
submitted to the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society in
which a particular star named KIC 8462852 is described.
Over the duration of
the Kepler mission, KIC 8462852 was observed to undergo irregulary shaped,
aperiodic dips in flux down to below the twenty percent
level.
We’d never seen
anything like this star, it was really weird. We thought it might be bad data or
movement on the spacecraft, but everything checked out. – Tabetha Boyajian,
researcher at Yale University
Studies mostly focused
on two interesting anomalies at KIC 8462852, one that was recorded between days
788 and 795 of the Kepler mission and between days 1510 to
1570.
The first event showed
a single transit causing a star brightness drop-off of 15 percent, while the
second event manifested as a burst of several transits, possibly indicating
towards mass of different objects, resulting in a brightness dip of up to 22
percent. For such a major dip in brightness to occure, the transiting objects
have to be extremely big.
Considering that our
galaxy has existed for more than 13 billion years, it’s not hard to imagine that
an alien civilization may be out there, possessing technology that allows them
to build megastructures around stars.
Aliens should always
be the very last hypothesis you consider, but this looked like something you
would expect an alien civilization to build. – Jason Wright, astronomer from
Penn State University
After analyzing all
possible situations, scientists concluded that this strange anomaly might be the
result of a group of dormant comets recently disturbed by a nearby star. Because
this theory is not all that convincing, other researchers are already
hypothesizing the possibility of a mega-engineered project created by a Type 2
alien civilization on the Kardashev scale.
This type of aliens
would have the ability to use all the available energy radiating from a star.
With the help of a vast shell or series of rings surrounding a star, a Dyson
sphere-like structure could be constructed. This would block out the star from
sight in visible wavelengths, but once the solar energy has been utilized by the
alien civilization, the energy would be shifted to longer wavelengths and
probably lost as infrared radiation.
Puzzled by these
strange recordings, scientists are now trying to point a radio antenna at KIC
8462852 in order to solve the riddle. By doing so, they will be able to detect
any artificial radio signals coming from the star and will determine whether or
not an intelligent, Type 2 civilization exists in our vicinity, only 1,500
light-years away.
Meanwhile, a second paper is being drafted by top researchers in order to analyze the transit scenario
focusing around the possibility of a colossal artificial device engineered by
advanced aliens.
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