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RE: Astronomers may have found giant alien 'megastructures' orbiting star near the Milky - Bear - 03-02-2016
Why isn't it thought to be a stellar ring? If a gas giant gets torn apart inside the Roche limit of a star, wouldn't you get something that looks a lot like that - for a few hundred years anyway? Sort of a naturally occurring 'smoke ring'?
RE: Astronomers may have found giant alien 'megastructures' orbiting star near the Milky - stevebowers - 03-02-2016
A uniform ring would cause a constant rate of extinction, but it could be a lumpy ring, or 'arc' ring which is only partially complete. The curious thing is the lumpy, bumpy nature of the light-curve.
![[Image: 2DCC79EE00000578-3289812-Two_of_the_dips...529099.jpg]](http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/10/26/12/2DCC79EE00000578-3289812-Two_of_the_dips_on_day_1520_and_1570_pictured_in_the_KIC_8462852-a-21_1445862529099.jpg)
RE: Astronomers may have found giant alien 'megastructures' orbiting star near the Milky - tmazanec1 - 05-20-2016
Please consider sending a little dinero to the kickstarter campaign to monitor this oddball of the skies
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/608159144/the-most-mysterious-star-in-the-galaxy?token=45297e55
RE: Astronomers may have found giant alien 'megastructures' orbiting star near the Milky - tmazanec1 - 06-17-2016
People, there are just a few hours left in the kickstarter campaign and we are almost there.
Come on...
RE: Astronomers may have found giant alien 'megastructures' orbiting star near the Milky - tmazanec1 - 07-21-2016
Tabby is trying to start a discussion forum on the star https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/608159144/the-most-mysterious-star-in-the-galaxy/posts/1633722
RE: Astronomers may have found giant alien 'megastructures' orbiting star near the Milky - tmazanec1 - 08-25-2016
Tabby's Star dimmed in the last few years:
http://www.skyandtelescope.com/astronomy-news/tabbys-star-weird-star-gets-weirder/
RE: Astronomers may have found giant alien 'megastructures' orbiting star near the Milky - tmazanec1 - 12-06-2016
Starlifting may explain light curves https://arxiv.org/pdf/1611.08368v1.pdf
RE: Astronomers may have found giant alien 'megastructures' orbiting star near the Milky - Drashner1 - 12-06-2016
Hm. Interesting, although I get the sense that the data is a bit preliminary at this point.
If it gained weight with more data, mining stars would certainly bake a lot of people's brains
Todd
RE: Astronomers may have found giant alien 'megastructures' orbiting star near the Milky - stevebowers - 12-07-2016
If there are civilisations out there millions or billions of years old, I'd expect a few of them to try star-lifting - although I'm not convinced we'd recognise it easily.
RE: Astronomers may have found giant alien 'megastructures' orbiting star near the Milky - tmazanec1 - 01-20-2017
See what reddit has to say about this star:
https://www.reddit.com/r/KIC8462852/