{"id":28699,"date":"2016-08-05T21:47:25","date_gmt":"2016-08-06T04:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/we-just-got-even-weirder-results-about-the-alien-megastructure-star"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:27:15","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:27:15","slug":"we-just-got-even-weirder-results-about-the-alien-megastructure-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/we-just-got-even-weirder-results-about-the-alien-megastructure-star","title":{"rendered":"We just got even weirder results about the \u2018alien megastructure\u2019 star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/we-just-got-even-weirder-results-about-the-alien-megastructure-star.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/scientists-can-t-explain-the-bizarre-mass-of-objects-orbiting-a-distant-star\">Last year<\/a>, the world freaked out over the discovery of a star that was dimming and flickering so erratically, it couldn\u2019t be explained by any known natural phenomenon \u2014 prompting one scientist to actually go there and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/scientists-can-t-explain-the-bizarre-mass-of-objects-orbiting-a-distant-star\">suggest it could be evidence<\/a> of some kind of alien megastructure.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/damn-so-far-there-are-no-signs-of-alien-life-coming-from-the-mysterious-megastructure-star\">Follow-up studies<\/a> have revealed no signs of alien behaviour, but NASA\u2019s Kepler Space Telescope has just spent <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/pdf\/1608.01316v1.pdf\">around 1,600 days observing the star<\/a>, and things have gotten a lot weirder.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe spent a long time trying to convince ourselves this wasn\u2019t real,\u201d one of the researchers, Ben Montet from Caltetch, <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/the-so-called-alien-megastructure-just-got-even-more-my-1784883811?utm_campaign=socialflow_io9_facebook&utm_source=io9_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow\">told Maddie Stone over at Gizmodo<\/a>. \u201cWe just weren\u2019t able to.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/we-just-got-even-weirder-results-about-the-alien-megastructure-star\">http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/we-just-got-even-weirder-results...cture-star<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, the world freaked out over the discovery of a star that was dimming and flickering so erratically, it couldn\u2019t be explained by any known natural phenomenon \u2014 prompting one scientist to actually go there and suggest it could be evidence of some kind of alien megastructure. Follow-up studies have revealed no signs of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28699","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\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28699"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66659,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28699\/revisions\/66659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}