{"id":30772,"date":"2016-10-05T10:31:27","date_gmt":"2016-10-05T17:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/alien-megastructure-star-keeps-getting-more-mysterious"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:11:30","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:11:30","slug":"alien-megastructure-star-keeps-getting-more-mysterious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/alien-megastructure-star-keeps-getting-more-mysterious","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Alien megastructure\u2019 star keeps getting more mysterious"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/alien-megastructure-star-keeps-getting-more-mysterious.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A mysterious star that some astronomers believe could harbor an \u201calien megastructure,\u201d continues to confound researchers.<\/p>\n<p>A study accepted for publication in the <a href=\"https:\/\/carnegiescience.edu\/news\/our-galaxy%E2%80%99s-most-mysterious-star-even-stranger-astronomers-thought\"><em>Astrophysical Journal<\/em><\/a> has only \u201cdeepened the mystery\u201d surrounding the strange light pattern emitted from the star known as KIC 8462852.<\/p>\n<p>Josh Simon of the Carnegie Institute and Ben Montet of Caltech analyzed data gathered by the Kepler space telescope during the four-year period the telescope <a href=\"https:\/\/carnegiescience.edu\/news\/our-galaxy%E2%80%99s-most-mysterious-star-even-stranger-astronomers-thought\">observed KIC 8462852, Carnegie Science said in a statement.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/tech\/nation-now\/2016\/10\/05\/alien-megastructure-star-keeps-getting-more-mysterious\/91597718\/\">http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/tech\/nation-now\/2016\/10\/05\/ali...\/91597718\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A mysterious star that some astronomers believe could harbor an \u201calien megastructure,\u201d continues to confound researchers. A study accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal has only \u201cdeepened the mystery\u201d surrounding the strange light pattern emitted from the star known as KIC 8462852. Josh Simon of the Carnegie Institute and Ben Montet of Caltech analyzed [\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-30772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30772","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=30772"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66083,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30772\/revisions\/66083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}