{"id":30790,"date":"2016-10-05T18:47:25","date_gmt":"2016-10-06T01:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/alien-megastructure-star-keeps-getting-stranger"},"modified":"2017-04-24T19:30:26","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T02:30:26","slug":"alien-megastructure-star-keeps-getting-stranger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/alien-megastructure-star-keeps-getting-stranger","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Alien Megastructure\u2019 Star Keeps Getting Stranger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/alien-megastructure-star-keeps-getting-stranger.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>World ring desighned to collect hellium 3? <\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The more scientists learn about \u201cTabby\u2019s Star,\u201d the more mysterious the bizarre object gets.<\/p>\n<p>Newly analyzed observations by NASA\u2019s planet-hunting Kepler space telescope show that the star KIC 8462852 \u2014 whose occasional, dramatic dips in brightness still have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/33813-alien-megastructure-mystery-tabbys-star.html\">astronomers scratching their heads<\/a> \u2014 has also dimmed overall during the last few years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe steady brightness change in KIC 8462852 is pretty astounding,\u201d study lead author Ben Montet, of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, said in a statement. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/20155-hunting-intelligent-aliens-extreme-seti.html\">13 Ways to Hunt Intelligent Alien Life<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/34303-alien-megastructure-star-strange-dimming-mystery.html\">http:\/\/www.space.com\/34303-alien-megastructure-star-strange-dimming-mystery.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World ring desighned to collect hellium 3? The more scientists learn about \u201cTabby\u2019s Star,\u201d the more mysterious the bizarre object gets. Newly analyzed observations by NASA\u2019s planet-hunting Kepler space telescope show that the star KIC 8462852 \u2014 whose occasional, dramatic dips in brightness still have astronomers scratching their heads \u2014 has also dimmed overall during [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30790","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\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30790"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49776,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30790\/revisions\/49776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}