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Scientists Just Spotted Something in Space That "an Alien Civilization Might Build." (http://mic.com/articles/126727/scientists-just-spotted-something-in-space-that-an-alien-civilization-might-build)
Scientists, however, are increasingly feverish over a new Kepler Space Telescope discovery between the constellations Cygnus and Lyra. A series of irregularities between a star and the light it emits has led at least one expert to conclude that the star is being orbited by a number of strange objects, which could be more than just asteroids.
"This looked like something you would expect an alien civilization to build," Jason Wright, an astronomer from Penn State University, told (http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2015/10/the-most-interesting-star-in-our-galaxy/410023/) the Atlantic this week. Wright added that the "swarm of megastructures" could be related to be extraterrestrial efforts to collect and farm energy from the star.
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Beginning in 2009, Kepler began a four-year period of observation of the area between Cygnus and Lyra. The work left scientists with no doubt that even if aliens weren't whizzing past on Jetsons-style aerocars, the region was worth increased exploration.
The observation period yielded a number of periodic dips in the light emitted by stars. Spotting the dips has historically been how stargazers have identified distant planets. The dips are caused when the planet traverses the path between the star and Kepler, causing an irregularity — essentially a quasi-eclipse. But this star, observers noticed, had an unusual light pattern, suggesting a large amount of matter was closely orbiting a mature star, which normally would have enough mass to engulf such objects in a flash.
So much data was collected that computers proved insufficient. Scientists at Yale University (http://news.yale.edu/2010/12/16/citizen-scientists-join-search-earth-planets])launched a program called Planet Hunters (http://www.planethunters.org/) in 2010, which opened Kepler's data to the public in a challenge to crowdsource the patterns and sleuth out the hidden worlds they revealed. It was these planet hunters who flagged the unfamiliar — unique — light pattern.
Space Anomaly Gets Extraterrestrial Intelligence Experts' Attention (http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/15/world/extraterrestrial-intelligence-anomaly/)
The California-based astronomer, who's been working on the search for extraterrestrial intelligence for about 10 years, called the findings "very atypical."
"This is one of maybe only two or three times we've been contacted by an astronomer who says there's something we don't understand," he said. "It is a very strange object."
Siemion submitted a series of proposals to use telescopes -- including the Green Bank Telescope (https://science.nrao.edu/facilities/gbt/) in West Virginia, which the National Radio Astronomy Observatory calls the premier single-dish radio telescope -- to look deeper into the anomaly.
The Green Bank telescope would be a good fit, given that SETI involves the search for extraterrestrial intelligence using, of all things, radio waves. According to Siemion, "There are particular types of radio waves that as far as we know can only be produced by technology."
"The advantage is that it's very easy to distinguish," he said. "Lots of the galaxies produces radio waves. If we see lots of energy in an area, it's an unmistakable marker of technology."
Scientists Can't Explain This -- Say We Need to Consider the Possibility of Aliens (http://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-can-t-explain-the-bizarre-mass-of-objects-orbiting-a-distant-star)
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Scientists Just Spotted Something in Space That "an Alien Civilization Might Build." (http://mic.com/articles/126727/scientists-just-spotted-something-in-space-that-an-alien-civilization-might-build)
Scientists, however, are increasingly feverish over a new Kepler Space Telescope discovery between the constellations Cygnus and Lyra. A series of irregularities between a star and the light it emits has led at least one expert to conclude that the star is being orbited by a number of strange objects, which could be more than just asteroids.
"This looked like something you would expect an alien civilization to build," Jason Wright, an astronomer from Penn State University, told (http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2015/10/the-most-interesting-star-in-our-galaxy/410023/) the Atlantic this week. Wright added that the "swarm of megastructures" could be related to be extraterrestrial efforts to collect and farm energy from the star.
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Beginning in 2009, Kepler began a four-year period of observation of the area between Cygnus and Lyra. The work left scientists with no doubt that even if aliens weren't whizzing past on Jetsons-style aerocars, the region was worth increased exploration.
The observation period yielded a number of periodic dips in the light emitted by stars. Spotting the dips has historically been how stargazers have identified distant planets. The dips are caused when the planet traverses the path between the star and Kepler, causing an irregularity — essentially a quasi-eclipse. But this star, observers noticed, had an unusual light pattern, suggesting a large amount of matter was closely orbiting a mature star, which normally would have enough mass to engulf such objects in a flash.
So much data was collected that computers proved insufficient. Scientists at Yale University (http://news.yale.edu/2010/12/16/citizen-scientists-join-search-earth-planets])launched a program called Planet Hunters (http://www.planethunters.org/) in 2010, which opened Kepler's data to the public in a challenge to crowdsource the patterns and sleuth out the hidden worlds they revealed. It was these planet hunters who flagged the unfamiliar — unique — light pattern.
Space Anomaly Gets Extraterrestrial Intelligence Experts' Attention (http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/15/world/extraterrestrial-intelligence-anomaly/)
The California-based astronomer, who's been working on the search for extraterrestrial intelligence for about 10 years, called the findings "very atypical."
"This is one of maybe only two or three times we've been contacted by an astronomer who says there's something we don't understand," he said. "It is a very strange object."
Siemion submitted a series of proposals to use telescopes -- including the Green Bank Telescope (https://science.nrao.edu/facilities/gbt/) in West Virginia, which the National Radio Astronomy Observatory calls the premier single-dish radio telescope -- to look deeper into the anomaly.
The Green Bank telescope would be a good fit, given that SETI involves the search for extraterrestrial intelligence using, of all things, radio waves. According to Siemion, "There are particular types of radio waves that as far as we know can only be produced by technology."
"The advantage is that it's very easy to distinguish," he said. "Lots of the galaxies produces radio waves. If we see lots of energy in an area, it's an unmistakable marker of technology."
Scientists Can't Explain This -- Say We Need to Consider the Possibility of Aliens (http://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-can-t-explain-the-bizarre-mass-of-objects-orbiting-a-distant-star)
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