Big Picture Science – Cosmic Conundra: Seth Shostak / Alien Megastructure?

by Gary Niederhoff on March 6, 2017

Cosmic Conundra – Alien Megastructure?
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Part 4 of Cosmic Conundra, featuring Seth’s description of the unexplained intermittent dimming of a star called KIC 8462852, which some theorize is caused by an alien megastructure.

Tagged as: aliens, astronomy, Kepler

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Lou Filliger March 10, 2017 at 11:44 am: Was surprised that the possibility of a variable star system, with a dimmer companion star orbiting in front of the brighter primary star, wasn’t mentioned. This type of system is so common as to be unremarkable.

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"Alien satellites might offer a new way to find E.T.," NBC News, March 19, 2018.

"Scientists say space aliens could hack our planet," NBC News, February 21, 2018.

"Phoning Home: Is Intellligent Alien Life Really Out There?," Futurism, January 31, 2018.

"10 top science minds tell what strange new body part they'd like to have: Seth Shostak: Better Color Vision," NBC News, January 28, 2018.

"Simple math shows how many space aliens may be out there," NBC News, January 26, 2018.

"UFO believers got one thing right. Here's what they get wrong." NBC News, January 3, 2018.

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