Check out the news report on the link:

NASA’s Kepler Telescope has stumbled upon one of the most fascinating discoveries so far – a colossal artificial megastructure believed to have been constructed by an advanced alien civilization.

Besides Kepler’s ability of finding small, rocky worlds orbiting distant stars, it can also detect different space phenomenon like stellar flares, star spots and dusty planetary rings.

This time however, Kepler detected the signal of a supposed vast artificial structure orbiting a star only 1,500 light years away from Earth.

After finishing all plausible explanations, scientists now believe that this complex structure might be an artificial construction made by an advanced alien civilization way up on the Kardashev scale of comparison.

This megastructure works like a supersized solar array orbiting around its host star, stocking the energy and sending it back to the source. The size of the structure is so grand that it’s blocking a considerable fraction of starlight as it spins around its host.

Normally all the exoplanets discovered by Kepler have a typical planet-shape, meaning they are round. This time however, the telescope detected something that isn’t round and behaves unnatural.

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No, it didn't. And despite the title of this thread, the linked article does not say that it did.

The video is more than 1 1/2 years old.

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KIC 8462852

KIC 8462852

KIC 8462852 in infrared and ultraviolet

KIC 8462852[1] (also Tabby's Star or WTF Star) is an F-type main-sequence star located in the constellation Cygnus approximately 1,276.6+398.2


−245.3 light-years (391.4+122.1


−75.2 pc) from Earth.[2]

Unusual light fluctuations of the star were discovered by citizen scientists as part of the Planet Hunters project, and in September 2015 astronomers and citizen scientists associated with the project posted a preprint of a paper on arXiv describing the data and possible interpretations.[1]

The discovery was made from data collected by the Kepler space telescope,[1][6] which observes changes in the brightness of distant stars to detect exoplanets.[7]

Several hypotheses have been proposed to explain the star's large irregular changes in brightness as measured by its unusual light curve, but none have fully explained all aspects of the curve.

The leading hypothesis, based on a lack of observed infrared light, posits a swarm of cold, dusty comet fragments in a highly eccentric orbit.[8][9][10]

Another hypothesis is that of a large number of small masses in "tight formation" orbiting the star.[6]

It has been speculated that the changes in brightness could be signs of activity associated with intelligent extraterrestrial life constructing a Dyson swarm.[6][11][12][13]

The SETI Institute's initial radio reconnaissance of KIC 8462852, however, found no evidence of technology-related radio signals from the star.[14][15][16]

KIC 8462852 is not the only star that has such large irregular dimmings.

However, all other such stars are young stellar objects called YSO dippers that have different dimming patterns.

An example of such an object is EPIC 204278916.[17][18]

[Edited 2/10/17 17:26pm]