Archived Comets cant explain weird alien megastructure star after all (newscientist.com)
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Archived Comets cant explain weird alien megastructure star after all (newscientist.com)
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[–] Mal-2 0 points 4 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago (edited ago)
Could it simply be some rapidly moving gas or dust or other form of obscuration that isn't part of the star's environment, but happens to lie on a line between us and it? Perhaps what we're seeing is just a dense patch in our own Oort cloud.
[–] Mal-2 ago (edited ago)
Well, someone else suggested I crunch the numbers, so I did. Here is that post in its entirely.