Odyssey Magazine Issue 4, 2015 | Page 11

ALIEN MEGASTRUCTURE CRAZE In October the online community went wild when it was revealed to the public that the deep space Kepler Telescope had picked up a very rare dip in brightness from a star it had been pointing at for some time while searching for exoplanets. Scientists study these dips to see if planets orbit a star and if they could have any habitable properties to them. The strange dip in this particular star's brightness had scientists scrambling for reasons why, and one hypothesis sent the internet into a frenzy: the object orbiting the star ma K[