{"id":18558,"date":"2015-10-19T15:31:24","date_gmt":"2015-10-19T22:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/search-for-intelligent-aliens-near-bizarre-dimming-star-has-begun"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:21:06","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:21:06","slug":"search-for-intelligent-aliens-near-bizarre-dimming-star-has-begun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/search-for-intelligent-aliens-near-bizarre-dimming-star-has-begun","title":{"rendered":"Search For Intelligent Aliens Near Bizarre Dimming Star Has Begun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/search-for-intelligent-aliens-near-bizarre-dimming-star-has-begun.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The search for signs of life in a mysterious star system hypothesized to potentially harbor an \u201calien megastructure\u201d is now underway.<\/p>\n<p>Astronomers have begun using the Allen Telescope Array (ATA), a system of radio dishes about 300 miles (483 kilometers) northeast of San Francisco, to hunt for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/30832-kepler-telescope-alien-megastructure.html\">signals coming from the vicinity of KIC 8462852<\/a>, a star that lies 1,500 light-years from Earth.<\/p>\n<p>NASA\u2019s Kepler space telescope found that KIC 8462852 dimmed oddly and dramatically several times over the past few years. The dimming events were far too substantial to be caused by a planet crossing the star\u2019s face, researchers say, and other possible explanations, such as an enormous dust cloud, don\u2019t add up, either. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/20155-hunting-intelligent-aliens-extreme-seti.html\">13 Ways to Hunt Intelligent Alien Life<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/30855-alien-life-search-kepler-megastructure.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The search for signs of life in a mysterious star system hypothesized to potentially harbor an \u201calien megastructure\u201d is now underway. Astronomers have begun using the Allen Telescope Array (ATA), a system of radio dishes about 300 miles (483 kilometers) northeast of San Francisco, to hunt for signals coming from the vicinity of KIC 8462852, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18558"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69343,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18558\/revisions\/69343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}