last year Onliner.by wrote about a mysterious discovery made by the astronomers — the twinkling star KIC 8462852, which is located 1,400 light years from us. The strangeness of the cosmic object lies in the fact that over the past few years observations of the luminosity drops sharply and irregularly and increases. Such phenomenon is quite unusual for the stars.

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last year Onliner.by wrote about a mysterious discovery made by the astronomers — the twinkling star KIC 8462852, which is located 1,400 light years from us. The strangeness of the cosmic object lies in the fact that over the past few years observations of the luminosity drops sharply and irregularly and increases. Such phenomenon is quite unusual for the stars.

the Main version of events the astronomers was one: irregular flickering can be explained by the passage of stars past the swarm of comets. Unfortunately, recent scientific studies have shown that this version is no good. After a study of archival photographic plates, which include about half a million images of the sky, it became clear that the puzzling behavior of KIC 8462852 is typical for the entire observation period for star. That is, the flickering stars were recorded from the end of XIX century. Such continuous changes of luminosity of an object cannot be explained by a cloud of comets, writes New Scientist.

Thus, the basic version of scientists explaining the mysterious behavior of the stars can be considered insolvent. As theory does not exclude the possibility that KIC 8462852 revolves around artificial alien megastructure that collects the energy of the stars, — the so-called Dyson sphere. Like it or not, we may at some point find out, the object continue to watch closely.

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