The Kepler space telescope NASA would have detected a luminous signal can therefore, perhaps, come from an extraterrestrial mega-structure ... This hypothesis is certainly not ruled out by professional astronomers.
Since entering orbit, the Kepler space telescope has detected more than 1,000 exoplanets, recording very low light variations when the last pass before their star. This is called the transit phenomenon akin to mini-eclipses. As in the vast majority of cases, the planets are significantly smaller than their star, these transits only weakly attenuate the emitted light, at most 1%.
In the very special case of the star KIC 8462852, Kepler has made light attenuation up to 22%! Stranger still, the brightness decreases are erratic and bear no resemblance to the passage of a planet around a star. Of the 150,000 monitored exoplanet, KIC 8462852 is the only time such a phenomenon has been observed!
According to astronomers, this is not a measurement error, the star is neither too old nor giant. They are also skeptical about the hypothesis of a passage of a comet rosary.
The extraterrestrial hypothesis is serious and clearly mentioned. Jason Wright, an astronomer at Penn State University expert on exoplanets and research of extraterrestrial civilization, is writing a publication on the assumption of a mega structure built in orbit around the star KIC 8462852 by a civilization largely technical capacity more developed than ours.
This gigantic structure could resemble a carpet of solar panels that surround the star, if that completely encompasses. The structure would collect the maximum energy emitted by the star.
Additional observations will be carried out to detect signals related to a possible technological activity.
However, the star is located at a distance of 1,500 light-years, which means that what we see today from the solar system date to 1500 years ...
Since entering orbit, the Kepler space telescope has detected more than 1,000 exoplanets, recording very low light variations when the last pass before their star. This is called the transit phenomenon akin to mini-eclipses. As in the vast majority of cases, the planets are significantly smaller than their star, these transits only weakly attenuate the emitted light, at most 1%.
In the very special case of the star KIC 8462852, Kepler has made light attenuation up to 22%! Stranger still, the brightness decreases are erratic and bear no resemblance to the passage of a planet around a star. Of the 150,000 monitored exoplanet, KIC 8462852 is the only time such a phenomenon has been observed!
According to astronomers, this is not a measurement error, the star is neither too old nor giant. They are also skeptical about the hypothesis of a passage of a comet rosary.
The extraterrestrial hypothesis is serious and clearly mentioned. Jason Wright, an astronomer at Penn State University expert on exoplanets and research of extraterrestrial civilization, is writing a publication on the assumption of a mega structure built in orbit around the star KIC 8462852 by a civilization largely technical capacity more developed than ours.
This gigantic structure could resemble a carpet of solar panels that surround the star, if that completely encompasses. The structure would collect the maximum energy emitted by the star.
Additional observations will be carried out to detect signals related to a possible technological activity.
However, the star is located at a distance of 1,500 light-years, which means that what we see today from the solar system date to 1500 years ...
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