Giant alien megastructures spotted by Kepler telescope on star KIC 8462852

In a recent observation NASA’s Kepler space telescope spotted some alien megastructure orbiting a distant star. Astronomers are baffled what it could be and have also presented different theories regarding it.

Kepler noticed certain dips in brightness of the star known as KIC 8462852 in the past six years. Astronomers after studying the data found that those dips were quite unusual and were very much different from orbiting planets passing in front.

At their first look at the data everything appeared to be unreal, they all were scratching their heads, Yale University astronomer Tabetha Boyajian told the New Scientist.

“Kepler for years has been giving us a catalog of over 1,000 extra-solar planets and this is the first oddball out of hundreds of thousands of stars scanned. This is the first one that does not fit the usual scenario”, said CBS News science contributor Michio Kaku.

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