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Bizarro World in Space! Giant Alien Megastructure Found in Space Is This A Giant Solar Energy Farm? (Video)

Thursday, October 15, 2015 16:33

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15 Oct 15

Solar-powered light in space?!

Astronomers may have found giant alien ‘megastructures’ orbiting star near the Milky Way

A star identified by the Kepler Space Telescope may harbour structures which could point to an adanced technological civilisation

A large cluster of objects in space look like something you would “expect an alien civilization to build”, astronomers have said.

Jason Wright, an astronomer from Penn State University, is set to publish a report on the “bizarre” star system suggesting the objects could be a “swarm of megastructures”, according to a new report.

“I was fascinated by how crazy it looked,” Wright told The Atlantic. “Aliens should always be the very last hypothesis you consider, but this looked like something you would expect an alien civilisation to build.”

The snappily named KIC 8462852 star lies just above the Milky Way between the constellations Cygnus and Lyra. It first attracted the attention of astronomers in 2009 when the Kepler Space Telescope identified it as a candidate for having orbiting Earth-like planets.

But KIC 8462852 was emitting a stranger light pattern than any of the other stars in Kepler’s search for habitable planets.

Kepler works by analysing light from distant places in the universe — looking for changes that take place when planets move in front of their stars. But the dip in starlight from KIC 8462852 doesn’t seem to be the normal pattern for a planet.

Tabetha Boyajian, a postdoc at Yale told The Atlantic: “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.” SOURCE

‘Giant alien megastructure found in space’: What is a Dyson sphere, and what else could we have found?

Some think that the object is a giant solar energy farm — though scientists caution that it may also be a spectacular cloud of dust

Scientists have spotted strange changes in light deep in space — which some claim might be a huge alien power station.

The huge cluster of objects has been said by scientists to be so strange that they have very little idea what it is. And some have speculated that it could be a swarm of megastructures built by aliens, while others say it might be one of the biggest clouds of space dust ever seen.

The reports originate from findings about a star named KIC 8462852, which has been watched by the Kepler space telescope, which looks for other planets like ours. It sees planet by watching for variations in the light that would be seen as they cross their star — but when it spotted the light from the newly-famous star, the data didn’t seem to indicate something planet-shaped.

If it is an alien megastructure, then the most likely reason for building it would be to construct a Dyson sphere — a huge shell structure that would sit entirely round a star, collecting all of the energy that comes out of it.

The idea of a Dyson sphere began as a thought experiment, based on the idea that technological civilisations gradually look to harness more energy. The ultimate end of that gradual process would be looking to harness all of the energy from its sun — and the best way to do that would be build a huge sphere around the star, collecting it through an advanced form of solar panel or similar.

Some have pointed out that any possible Dyson sphere around the KIC 8462852 star must be so far incomplete — it is still letting light through, which is the only way we can see it. But it might in fact have been completed already, since the star is 1400 lightyears away and so our current information about it is hundreds of years old.

The Kardashev scale is a way of measuring the technological advancement of a certain civilisation. It is based on the idea that as civilisations become more — first, they will collect energy from their planet, then from their star and eventually from their galaxy.

The Dyson sphere would be an example of a way that such a civilisation could collect energy from their star.

The Dyson sphere is named after Freeman Dyson, a theoretical physicist who popularised the idea but has said that he wished it didn’t have his name. SOURCE