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Aliens? Comets? Alien megastructures in orbit? Unusual star provokes questions.
Rending of Kepler credit: NASA Ames/ W Stenzel

[DIGEST: Washington Post, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Universe Today, The Atlantic]

The Internet has been alight with speculation about the existence of alien megastructures since the publication of a paper about the star KIC 8462852 in early September. The star is one of more than 150,000 being monitored by the Kepler Space Telescope in the hopes of finding one orbited by an Earth-like planet.

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