The star 846252 has made headlines several times in the recent past for its unusual dimming that has scientists perplexed. The dimming is unlike any other star we have ever observed and the pattern does not quite fit with any known causes.
Possible answers for this oddity include invasive gas clouds, shattered comets or asteroids, though the number required is astronomical (pun fully intended,) or even the death of one or more planets, having been broken into pieces possibly through gravitational pull or a massive impact.
Another possible explanation, and my personal favorite, is that an advanced alien race is building (or has built as the star is approximately 1,480 light years away from Earth, and so we are seeing it that many years in the past) a Dyson Sphere.
What is a Dyson Sphere you may ask? Well, to put it simply a Dyson Sphere is a giant solar panel that completely surrounds a star and captures all of its available energy. This is a very basic definition and I encourage to read more about them, maybe even the Kardashev scale (which I personally find hilariously bad.)
Further study of the star has recently shown that the star dimmed by almost 1 percent over the first three years of a special Kepler mission dedicated to investigating the star, but during the last 6 months of the investigation, the star dimmed an astonishing additional 2% and remained at that level for the rest of the observation.
So what do you think, is it broken planets, a thick asteroid field, an advanced alien race, or a giant space fart? Let me know your opinions in the comments below!
I think they found another star with this behavior recently. So, it might be a natural phenomenon :(
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I googled "another star like kic 8462852" and found this link, which gives an additional theory I didn't mention in the post. The new theory is that the dimming is caused by a protoplanetary disk that is positioned so we can't detect it.
Luckily it also says more research is going to be done in the next year, so we will have new information soon, relative to the grand scheme of things anyway.
http://www.sciencealert.com/researchers-just-found-a-second-dyson-sphere-star
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fifteen hundred years ago.
What was happening on earth then?
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The Western Roman Empire had just fallen, Svealand (Sweden) had just been settled by Gothic tribes, the Eastern Roman Empire was fighting the Persians, China was once again in a period of division. That is really all I know for sure, the Franks were about to become a thing under Charlemagne, but not for awhile, Islam didn't exist yet, I'm sure something was happening in the Americas but I have no idea what.
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