Space is fascinating — astronauts have walked on the moon and people may go explore Mars. But now, it just got even cooler, or ~weirder~, depending on how you look at it. ICYMI, some astronomers think there may be a huge piece of alien technology that aims to get energy from a distant star. Whaaaaat? Images from the star have been studied the past four years via a Kepler Telescope, and a new (yet unpublished) study was posted to arXiv. Not only did the luminosity vary — sometimes going down by even 20 percent — but its total luminosity also went down during the study, by four percent. “The part that really surprised me was just how rapid and non-linear [the dimming] was,” study author and Caltech ...
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