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Last fall, almost no one knows the optical double star KIC 8462852, located at a distance of one thousand four hundred eighty light-years from us, caused a real stir among people of science, amateur astronomers and ufologists.
Researchers said the star mysteriously flickers randomly, and this may be the result of having near her a certain megastructure constructed by representatives of an extraterrestrial civilization. Of course, the global scientific community talk about aliens with skepticism however massive gas The ball has interested many scientists.
Recent observations of the star did not reveal any signs. the presence of aliens. However, constant failures in indicators the luminosities of a distant celestial body completely defy rational explanation, and experts do not even know what to think. The situation is becoming more mysterious and confusing.
The brightness of a distant star decreases fantastically
American astronomers Joshua Simon and Ben Montet held thorough photometric analysis of KIC 8462852 and confirmed that the star loses from time to time about twenty percent of its brightness, and then restores it. Tabbi Boyajyan, who discovered star, was sure that all the blame erected by aliens colossal structure that moves around a gas ball, periodically obscuring it.
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Americans cannot confirm or refute their hypothesis colleagues about aliens, but they managed to prove something else: in the last four years, the overall brightness of the luminary has been steadily declining, which is simply impossible by astronomical standards. Are required billions of years to make the star’s light noticeably less intense, however, the powerful Kepler satellite telescope shows that KIC 8462852 almost annually dims by two percent. World astronomers claim they have never seen anything like it, and such Brightness reduction rates are truly unimaginable. If if, say, our Sun behaved in a similar way, it would not have passed and ten years as the Earth’s climate would undergo significant changes.
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The decrease in brightness of this celestial body is very unevenly and swiftly. Astronomers tried for a long time convince themselves that their calculations are wrong and they are wrong, but the facts suggest otherwise. It is noteworthy that over the past century luminous efficiency KIC 8462852 reduced by nineteen percent, however, in recent years, the star began to fade much faster. Therefore, some experts suggest that everything can be blamed. to be aliens. For example, Jason Wright, working in Pennsylvania State University believes abnormal star can be a kind of space building an object used by representatives of extraterrestrial civilization, and very highly developed.
Some astronomers, of course, are trying to find the simplest explanations for all of this. For example, that located in the constellation The swan luminary is surrounded by a huge belt of comets and asteroids, which constantly move and thereby reduce the light output of KIC 8462852. However, this scientific hypothesis is even more unlikely than previous one.
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