ASTRONOMERS BELIEVE THAT a series of objects sighted in deep space bear all the hallmarks of alien construction.
A star, which sits above the milky way in the sky and is invisible to the human eye, was stared at for more than four years by the Kepler Space Telescope up until 2014, and now scientists think that objects surrounding the star could be a “swarm of megastructures”.
The Kepler telescope is manned by a team of citizen scientists, known as the ‘Planet Hunters’, who sift through the data on the 150,000 stars that the telescope monitors.
“We’d never seen anything like this star,” Tabetha Boyajian, a postdoctoral student at Yale University who oversees the team, told The Atlantic.