Boyajian’s Star (KIC 8462852) Updates: The Mystery Continues
For a long time, extraterrestrial megastructures have piqued the interest of many experts and amateur astronomers. Tabby’s star was one such huge draw.
The strange lowering of light incident has sparked a flurry of speculation. Tabby’s Star, also known as star KIC 8462852, has been a source of fascination and investigation in the scientific community for quite some time, with scientists attempting to discover why it experiences unpredictable episodes of brightening and fading. We talked about the strangeness of Tabby’s star in one of our previous videos with possible explanations of the weird dimming of light.
But more strangeness seems to have emerged from the new data of Tabby’s star. Surprising evidence has been discovered that might help explain the enigma of this strangely fading star. So just sit back and relax while we explain to you the mysterious circumstances surrounding the star KIC 8462852 or Tabby’s star.
NASA’s Kepler mission has fundamentally altered the game when it comes to studying exoplanets and other distant worlds. It has observed around 530,000 stars to date. There are over 2600 undiscovered exoplanets.
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First, I don’t think we can say that a techno-signature is the LEAST likely explanation. For all we know, technological civilizations are common, and as we are able to see clearer and farther, we might discover this to be true. Or not. But we don’t have nearly enough evidence to assert it is unlikely today. The likelihood is unknown.
As I understand it, the next biggest knock for this being a Dyson swarm, is that solar panels–like dust–should radiate heat in the infrared. This seems to me to be a strange assumption to make, as well. Why should we assume that a MUCH further advanced civilization might not have discovered materials that–in the quest for efficiency–capture more heat energy and release less infrared? Whatever it is already radiates less infrared than we can explain, so the material is clearly novel to us, even if it isn’t technological. All the lack of an infrared signal proves is that we don’t know what the material is.
I propose the observations are ALL consistent with a Dyson swarm made up of louvred panels of a material capable of capturing the stars energy without losing as much as expected to heat radiating in the infrared. Louvred to allow the stars emissions to pass through or not depending upon whether the linked panels are drifting too far toward or away the from star or each other. This would explain why dips are irregularly sized. The panels would rarely be completely closed or completely open.