TravisMontgomery
New
I've been hearing a lot of people at my school talking about the strange light variations from star KIC 8462852 so I thought I'd share some of the more interesting articles along with it :P
http://www.cnet.com/news/the-full-s...scientists-may-have-found-but-probably-didnt/
http://www.popsci.com/alien-megastructures-how-astronomers-plan-to-investigate
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/s...d-what-else-could-we-have-found-a6695556.html
Ignore the sensationalist headlines, if you don't mind, and just enjoy there may be a new cosmic discovery in how dust forms around stars. Or, if it actually is a Dyson-type object that would be pretty cool too!
Here's the actual paper,
http://arxiv.org/pdf/1509.03622v1.pdf
http://www.cnet.com/news/the-full-s...scientists-may-have-found-but-probably-didnt/
http://www.popsci.com/alien-megastructures-how-astronomers-plan-to-investigate
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/s...d-what-else-could-we-have-found-a6695556.html
Ignore the sensationalist headlines, if you don't mind, and just enjoy there may be a new cosmic discovery in how dust forms around stars. Or, if it actually is a Dyson-type object that would be pretty cool too!
Here's the actual paper,
http://arxiv.org/pdf/1509.03622v1.pdf