{"id":98152,"date":"2019-11-05T02:02:38","date_gmt":"2019-11-05T10:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/alien-megastructure-star-may-not-be-so-special-after-all"},"modified":"2019-11-05T02:02:38","modified_gmt":"2019-11-05T10:02:38","slug":"alien-megastructure-star-may-not-be-so-special-after-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/alien-megastructure-star-may-not-be-so-special-after-all","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Alien Megastructure\u2019 Star May Not Be So Special After All"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/alien-megastructure-star-may-not-be-so-special-after-all2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I think this is real but some say it isn\u2019t.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A mysterious star whose repeated bouts of darkening might be due to \u201calien megastructures,\u201d according to some researchers\u2019 conjectures, may now have more than a dozen counterparts that display similarly mystifying behavior, a new study finds.<\/p>\n<p>Further research into all of these stars might help solve the puzzle of their bewildering flickering, the study\u2019s author said.<\/p>\n<p>In 2015, scientists noticed unusual fluctuations in the light from a star named KIC 8462852. This otherwise-normal F-type star, which is slightly larger and hotter than Earth\u2019s sun, sits about 1,480 light-years from Earth, in the constellation Cygnus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think this is real but some say it isn\u2019t. A mysterious star whose repeated bouts of darkening might be due to \u201calien megastructures,\u201d according to some researchers\u2019 conjectures, may now have more than a dozen counterparts that display similarly mystifying behavior, a new study finds. Further research into all of these stars might help [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98152","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}