"We maybe found an alien megastructure orbiting a distant star.."
It was spotted by Tabetha Boyajian, a researcher at Yale, in data from NASA's Kepler space telescope.
"We’d never seen anything like this star," Boyajian told The Atlantic, which was the first to report the discovery in October 2015. "It was really weird. We thought it might be bad data or movement on the spacecraft, but everything checked out."
Kepler looks for dips in light that indicate distant stars are being orbited by planets. But the pattern of dips coming from this star, called KIC 8462852 and also known as Tabby's Star after its discoverer, didn't look like a normal planet – in fact, it didn't look like a planet at all.
Astronomer Jason Wright suggested one explanation that really caught people's attention: that the star is surrounded by some kind of alien megastructure – possibly something called a Dyson swarm, a more complicated version of a Dyson sphere.
The Dyson sphere was first proposed by science fiction writer Olaf Stapledon and later popularised by Freeman Dyson. It's a giant structure that surrounds a star and soaks up light to use as energy. Obviously, humans have never made anything like a Dyson sphere – it's far beyond our current capabilities – but if aliens have managed to make one it might help us spot them.
Since the paper came to light, various explanations have been put forward, including that the bizarre light pattern was created by comets, or that the star is still young enough that it has a debris disk around it, or that one of its own planets plunged into the star in a fiery death.
But nothing is yet certain, so if, for the moment, you choose to believe it really is an alien megastructure, we won't judge.
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