The star identified by the Kepler Space Telescope could hide the structures implying the presence of a technologically advanced civilization.

According to astronomers, a large cluster of objects in space looks like something "could be expected to be created by an alien civilization." Jason Wright, an astronomer at Penn State University, is about to publish a report on a "bizarre" star system. In this new report, he proposes to label objects as a "swarm of megasstructures". He told The Independent, "I can't solve this thing and that's why it's so interesting, so cool, it doesn't seem to make sense to me." He told The Atlantic: "Aliens should always be the last hypothesis you're thinking about, but this looked like something you would expect an alien civilization to create. I was fascinated by how strange it looked. "

The star, originally named KIC 8462852, lies just above the Milky Way between the Swan and Lyra constellations. It first attracted the attention of astronomers in 2009, when the Kepler Telescope identified it as a candidate for the presence of Earth-like orbits. But KIC 8462852 radiated a more unusual light pattern than any other star in the process of searching for habitable planets using the Kepler Telescope.

Kepler's telescope analyzes light from distant places in space and looks for changes that occur as the planets move in front of their stars. The starlight imprint from KIC 8462852 does not look like a normal pattern for the planet. Tabetha Boyajian, a graduate student at Yale University, told Atlantic: "We have never seen anything like this star. It was really wonderful. We thought it could be incorrect data or movement on a spaceship, but we ruled out everything. "

In 2011, the star was again named by several members of Kepler's "Planet Hunters" team - a group of scientists tasked with analyzing data on 150000 stars observed with the Kepler Telescope. Analysts called the star "interesting" and "bizarre" because it was surrounded by a mass of matter in close formation. It coincided with the mass of fragments surrounding the young star, as it did with our Sun before the planets formed. However, this star was not young and the fragments would have to be scattered around it only recently, otherwise they would form a cluster due to gravity or be swallowed up by the star itself.

Special structures around the star

Boyajian, who oversees the Planet Hunters project, recently published an article pointing to all possible natural explanations of the objects and calling all of them insufficient except one: that another star stretched a chain of comets near KIC 8462852. But even that would be the result of a very unlikely coincidence. .

At this point, astronomer Wright of Penn State University and his colleague Andrew Siemion, director of SETI (Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence), were involved in the research. The team began to take very seriously the possibility that objects were created by intelligent beings.

Footage from the telescope

As civilizations become more advanced, they are creating new and better ways to gather energy, and the end result is the use of energy directly from their star. If the speculation about the megasstructure around the star is correct, scientists claim that it could be, for example, a huge set of solar panels placed around the star. The three mentioned astronomers want to point a parabolic antenna at the star and look for wavelengths indicating the existence of technically advanced civilizations. The first observations could take place in January and the others should follow even faster. "If all goes well, we'll be able to make follow-up observations sooner," Wright told Atlantic. "If we observe anything interesting, we will continue to observe immediately."

Horus: And this is what the astronomers themselves say! That they would no longer be afraid of the fact that the uniqueness of our earthly civilization would be a waste of space in the Universe? She does not exist the uniqueness of life in the Universe, and after the flowing water on Planet Mars this message is further proof that something is happening ...