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Kepler's Alien colossal megastructure around KIC 8462852 | Forum
micheal
Oct 19 '15
What really is it? Will it be really aliens? or just a malfunction in Keplers' functions?
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Marko
Oct 27 '15
at 2 events the KIC 8462852
1- between days 788 and 795 of the Kepler mission and
2- between days 1510 to 1570
The first event appears to have been a single transit causing a star brightness drop-off of 15 percent as per the chart below, whereas the second event was a burst of several transits, possibly indicating a clump of different objects, forcing a brightness dip of up to 22 percent. To cause such dips in brightness, these transiting objects must be huge.
The Forum post is edited by Marko Oct 27 '15
micheal
Oct 29 '15
scientists suggested some kind of circumstellar disk of dust that could be passing near by
Marko
Oct 29 '15
but the star is 1.5 times the size of the sun, and circumstellar disks are usually found around young stars.
Marko
Oct 29 '15
There is no evidence in data taken by NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) that a collision happened
Mmmansy
Oct 29 '15
I think researchers would soon discover the passage of a field star through the system
Marko
Oct 29 '15
yes, it might be as there’s a nearby star that might have tidally disturbed otherwise dormant comets in the outermost regions of the KIC 8462852 star system.
it is located away ,000 AU from KIC 8462852 and whether it’s a binary partner or an interstellar visitor, its presence may have caused some cometary turmoil. Like the other scenarios, however, the exocomet explanation still falls short of being fully satisfactory.
Marko
Oct 29 '15
there are 2 papers one focusing only on natural causes and the second paper taking into consideration of the possibility of a mega-engineering project created by an advanced alien civilization.
