We Might lastly Solve the ‘Alien Mega-structure’ Mystery
Good information alien hunters! A Kickstarter to fund a one-year study on KIC 8462852 - the star most likely voted to host a higher alien civilization - has just been funded. Alien megastructure or not, we could finally get to the bottom of this bewildering and flickering star. This crowdfunding movement was set up in May by astronomer Yale Tabby Boyajian and manages to reach the $ 100,000 goal in just 30 days. A $ 10,000 hike in the previous 100 minutes of the campaign managed to put the plan on top. The next step is to understand the logistics, but Boyajian, who led the study on KIC 8462852, says that the observations could create as early as next summer. The ultimate goal of the plan will be to decide why the light from this star dims at such irregular intervals, and sometimes up to 20 percent. These huge drops in brightness are too big to be a passing planet, so the doubt that the anomaly is caused by swarms of comets, an indistinct star, an unidentified astronomical ph...