alien engineering around strange star? - solar street lamp

There is a new Big Dipper in the night sky.
No, it's not a comfortable sign, it's a distant sign.
Describing a star like a signal light on a ship, the light that flashes into the darkness of the universe, looks random, but may not.
Although the luminous output of everyday stars is very stable, this star occasionally reduces brightness by up to 20%, indicating that it is either surrounded by dust, rocks or other opaque materials, or-
Hang up your desk chair
Some residents in this stellar system deliberately build a hardware large enough to intercept the massive output of their sun.
In this case, what we see is the result of a huge, unfamiliar construction project. Seriously?
The kind star named KIC 846 2852 --
A fairly common Star sphere, about half.
It's as big as our sun, nearly five times bright.
Become the home of some advanced society that solves the energy crisis by building the so-called Dyson sphere (
Or more practically, Dyson Group)
: A series of solar panels running around the Sun, converting a large amount of starlight into electricity, and then transmitting that energy back to Earth to power fossil fuelsfree lifestyle?
That's certainly possible.
The idea of Dyson group (
First proposed by physicist Freeman Dyson)
Enough to attract several astronomers to look for them throughout the galaxy.
They do this by looking for warm infrared rays floating from the back of the solar panel.
However, their mission is tricky because there is any dust floating in the space between the planets (
There's always dust! )
Will imitate this infrared light.
But KIC 846 2852 is different because there is evidence that space engineering is direct.
There is a clear
Cutting and periodic dimming of starlight-
It's much simpler than trying to sort out the blurry infrared.
Given this interesting behavior, shouldn't we check this star more closely?
Isn't this the home of true cosmic wisdom?
It's not just the pond scum at the water puddles in the nearby World, but also the skilled creatures who may tell us something interesting. . .
Or at least by being the first feeling to discover other than ourselves to trigger endless conversations? Of course.
But history may be bland by pointing out that the explanation for the unstable glare of KIC 846 2852, not profound, gently encouraging us to ease our enthusiasm.
The star is one of the 150,000 Star Targets observed by NASA's Kepler space telescope.
This is also an activity reviewed in the civil science movement that uses the human eye (
Relative to computer code)
Looking for unusual features
In fact, what humans have discovered is most likely not noticed by software.
The change in brightness is highly variable and substantial, as you expect from a small group of moths attacking street lights.
Scientists who published papers announcing this behavior gave their views on what happened here --
They themselves explain what these "moths" might be.
Like the natural variability of the stars themselves, and even errors in data processing, dust clusters are possible.
But none of these seem to reduce mustard.
Discoverer more like another a kind of explain: a little star now in distance KIC 100 billion 846 2852 miles of place can see recently after the closer to the place and interference the some solar system
Just as lifting the rock can cause sow bugs to run around, the gravitational pull of the star could prompt other offensive combos to tilt towards the interior of the KIC 846 2852 star system, fill it with fragments that cause flickering.
It will be fun but obviously not as exciting as finding the Dyson Group.
We still have to be careful: given that we naturally tend to blame aliens for all the unexplained phenomena on Earth, we inevitably give them credit even if they are not involved.
When first discovered, it was called "little green man" by Cambridge astronomers ".
They turned out to be dead stars. CTA 102 -
A star discovered in early 1960 is thought to have changed brightness very quickly, with at least some Soviet astronomers thinking that smart aliens are sending coded messages to people of concern.
As a matter of fact, it turns out that meteoroids are only natural flashes, and the reason is not related to intelligence.
Also, the KIC 846 2852 is hardly a star system that anyone thinks is "most likely to accommodate aliens.
"This star is several thousand degrees hotter than the sun, and it will bleach any surface that surrounds the planet with extremely unfriendly UV rays.
In addition, it takes only 3 billion years to completely exhaust the hydrogen fuel supply at the time of its birth.
It will die when it is young.
Remember, it took 4-
Life on Earth will reach our own, modest level of technology for 1/2 years.
These are not performances.
Stopper: Maybe the other planets are much faster than the Earth's clever creatures, and maybe the residents are born with 50 sunscreen skins.
More generally, people should not degrade healthy skeptical attitudes to unattractive pigs --
Even in this case, the evidence of revolutionary things is not very promising.
You must follow up. And we are.
Since October 16, the SETI Institute has been using the Allen Telescope Array to observe KIC 846 2852 in a wide range of radio frequencies (1 to 10 GHz)
Look for any manual signal.
Keep in mind that this star system is relatively far, about 1400 light. years away.
Farther than the Orion Nebula and there (
If you feel the need)
It will take 23 million years for our fastest rocket.
But more importantly, any signal that the Earth can detect must be very powerful.
We are continuing to analyze the data.
In another week, our SETI team will again observe KIC 846 2852 with some new receivers attached to the Allen array
Known as Antonio feed
This will double the sensitivity.
Check this space.
At the same time, the KIC 846 2852 is seen as a hint of the universe company, but not just a suggestion.