In recent weeks, researchers around the world were literally lost with a mysterious light from a star, located in the depths of the universe. That has taken the internet and became known as the alien Megastructure. However, it was not what we thought.
The SETI Institute (Institute for extraterrestrial intelligence that seeks) recorded in the solar system KIC 8462852 interference in reading the reports they receive. In order to understand more about the reports received, the lizes waves is uniform and constant, if we were using a line she would be continuous and infinite, but in a few days, which was a continuous line began exhibiting "failures" and negative peaks, which represents interference.
Intrigued by the records of KIC 8462852 system, and using data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, could then solve the mystery, finding evidence that interference were carried out by a swarm of comets. The study, led by Massimo Marengo of Iowa State University, Ames, was accepted for publication in Astrophysical Journal Letters. However, according to Marengo, more observations are needed to help solve the case of KIC 8462852. "This is a very strange star and we will keep an eye," he said.
Understand how the readings of the lights are made ;
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KIC 8462852 , located 1480 years light away , was monitored by the Kepler Space Telescope for over four years starting in 2009. And as a planet or comet passing in front of the light from a star , makes the light dim and back , like a beacon , and Kepler can captured these inconsistencies .