BRENT: The award for strangest star in the universe just went to KIC 8462852.
And while some are saying that this star could be harboring a giant structure built by an advanced alien civilisation, the scientists behind the hype are saying otherwise.
Business Insider recently spoke with two of these astronomers to find out what’s really going on.
For some background: A postdoctoral graduate at Yale, Tabby Boyajian, and Penn State astronomer Jason Wright, recently discovered a bizarre and mysteriously giant structure orbiting the star that’s unlike anything they have ever seen.
And now they’re doing what scientists do best: weighing all of the possible explanations until more data comes in that can rule out the wrong reasons in favour of the right one.
Right now, there are many options on the table, including a giant swarm of comets, left-over chunks from a broken-up planet, and last but certainly not least an alien-built megastructure. But we won’t know for sure until more data is collected.
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