https://www.retard.com/r/space/comments/rjpjxx/possible_new_technosignatures_detected_in_a/
>Possible new technosignatures detected in a cluster of F- and G-type main sequence stars surrounding Tabby's Star (KIC 8462852), the "alien megastructure" star from a few years ago
John Michael Godier just released an easily accessible explanation video: https://youtu.be/zSCN09SSRck
The link to the actual paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2111.01208.pdf
TL;DR KIC 8462852 has been behaving in ways that aren't consistent with what we know about how these stars behave, and nobody has really been able to propose a suitable natural explanation that survives scrutiny. Every time someone seems to get close, new data comes in and torpedoes their hypotheses, so they have to start over.
This time was especially interesting because someone decided to analyze all the astronomical data we have on a massive catalogue of stars we can see in the milky way in order to find out if any other stars behaved like Tabby's Star. They found a good number of stars that behaved like it, which at first indicated it was some kind of natural phenomena we don't understand, but then the torpedo hit again: all of the stars were clustered near KIC 8462852, which is extremely unnatural, and all of the stars were the same two types, which is also extremely unnatural.
For reference, F- and G-type stars are theorized to be some of the most hospitable for life as we know it. Our sun is G-type.
Basically, this is textbook "what an expanding technological civilization would look like if we were to see one through our telescopes" which is why the paper is suggesting that this area is starting to look extremely promising as SETI targets. One star behaving strangely is one thing, but now that more have been detected in the same area, it's getting really fascinating.
>Possible new technosignatures detected in a cluster of F- and G-type main sequence stars surrounding Tabby's Star (KIC 8462852), the "alien megastructure" star from a few years ago
John Michael Godier just released an easily accessible explanation video: https://youtu.be/zSCN09SSRck
The link to the actual paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2111.01208.pdf
TL;DR KIC 8462852 has been behaving in ways that aren't consistent with what we know about how these stars behave, and nobody has really been able to propose a suitable natural explanation that survives scrutiny. Every time someone seems to get close, new data comes in and torpedoes their hypotheses, so they have to start over.
This time was especially interesting because someone decided to analyze all the astronomical data we have on a massive catalogue of stars we can see in the milky way in order to find out if any other stars behaved like Tabby's Star. They found a good number of stars that behaved like it, which at first indicated it was some kind of natural phenomena we don't understand, but then the torpedo hit again: all of the stars were clustered near KIC 8462852, which is extremely unnatural, and all of the stars were the same two types, which is also extremely unnatural.
For reference, F- and G-type stars are theorized to be some of the most hospitable for life as we know it. Our sun is G-type.
Basically, this is textbook "what an expanding technological civilization would look like if we were to see one through our telescopes" which is why the paper is suggesting that this area is starting to look extremely promising as SETI targets. One star behaving strangely is one thing, but now that more have been detected in the same area, it's getting really fascinating.
