{"id":6892,"date":"2015-10-15T12:10:40","date_gmt":"2015-10-15T19:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=6892"},"modified":"2015-10-17T12:15:09","modified_gmt":"2015-10-17T19:15:09","slug":"alien-megastructure-egad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2015\/10\/15\/alien-megastructure-egad\/","title":{"rendered":"Alien Megastructure, Egad!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/news\/world-news\/alien-megastructure-could-surround-giant-6632574\" target=\"_blank\">from The Mirror<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"\">&#8216;Alien megastructure&#8217; could surround giant star baffling scientists looking for new planets<\/h1>\n<p><span class=\"section-label\">BY<\/span>\u00a0KIRSTIE MCCRUM<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/players.brightcove.net\/4221396001\/60716998-ff67-4298-8bd7-2162e15a858d_default\/index.html?videoId=4557480058001\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A series of mysterious objects surrounding a giant star millions of miles away could be an alien megastructure, experts believe.<\/p>\n<p>Planet spotters examining data from the Kepler Space Telescope were startled by an unusual light pattern orbiting a star called KIC 8462852.<\/p>\n<p>When they studied the star, which sits some 1,480 light years from Earth, they noticed a swarm of objects surrounding it in an usual pattern.<\/p>\n<p>At first it was thought to be comets, shrapnel from an asteroid impact or even a mistake in the data.<\/p>\n<p>But astronomer\u00a0<a title=\"http:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/all-about\/penn-university\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/all-about\/penn-university\" target=\"_blank\" data-action=\"penn-university\" data-content-type=\"section-topic\" data-track=\"false\" data-type=\"inline\" data-word-count=\"6\">Jason Wright from Penn State University<\/a>\u00a0offered a more science fiction explanation.<\/p>\n<p>He believes it could be an &#8216;alien megastructure&#8217; designed to harness energy from the star.<\/p>\n<p>He said: &#8220;Aliens should always be the very last hypothesis you consider, but this looked like something you would expect an alien civilization to build.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/news\/world-news\/alien-megastructure-could-surround-giant-6632574\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at The Mirror<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Mirror &#8216;Alien megastructure&#8217; could surround giant star baffling scientists looking for new planets BY\u00a0KIRSTIE MCCRUM A series of mysterious objects surrounding a giant star millions of miles away could be an alien megastructure, experts believe. Planet spotters examining data from the Kepler Space Telescope were startled by an unusual light pattern orbiting a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6892\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}