Are Those Really Alien Megastructures? How Astronomers Plan To Investigate
There's something weird happening around a faraway star. Artist’s concept of rock and dust orbiting a star Skywatchers have noticed something “bizarre” in the data from the planet-hunting Kepler telescope. Located 1,480 light-years away, a star named KIC 8462852 has something big circling around it, …
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