{"id":20790,"date":"2016-01-15T15:01:43","date_gmt":"2016-01-15T23:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/comets-cant-explain-weird-alien-megastructure-star-after-all"},"modified":"2017-06-04T11:07:31","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T18:07:31","slug":"comets-cant-explain-weird-alien-megastructure-star-after-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/comets-cant-explain-weird-alien-megastructure-star-after-all","title":{"rendered":"Comets can\u2019t explain weird \u2018alien megastructure\u2019 star after all"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/comets-cant-explain-weird-alien-megastructure-star-after-all.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Well well well\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n<p>It looks like we just might have some neighbors after all!<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully their idea of a good housewarming present DOESN\u2019T include planetary extermination! <span class=\"wp-smiley emoji emoji-wink\" title=\";-)\">wink<\/span>  <\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A star called KIC 8462852, or Tabby\u2019s star, has been behaving oddly since 1890, not just recently as had been thought \u2013 and astronomers have no idea why.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/dn28786-comets-cant-explain-weird-alien-megastructure-star-after-all\/?utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=SOC&utm_campaign=hoot&cmpid=SOC%257CNSNS%257C2016-GLOBAL-hoot\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well well well\u2026\u2026 It looks like we just might have some neighbors after all! Hopefully their idea of a good housewarming present DOESN\u2019T include planetary extermination! wink A star called KIC 8462852, or Tabby\u2019s star, has been behaving oddly since 1890, not just recently as had been thought \u2013 and astronomers have no idea why. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20790","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=20790"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63243,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20790\/revisions\/63243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}