Astronomers Reveal 'Bizarre' Star That May Host Alien 'Megastructures' - IGN News

After more than four years of observations with the Kepler Space Telescope, astronomers reveal that a bizarre star called KIC 8462852 has unexplained objects orbiting it.

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[Reallyrandomcircle]

water on mars, water on pluto, and alien megastructures. one helluva year for space

[jgang]

aliens confirmed. so let's send em our coordinates so we can see those hover boards we were promised.

[maryyjanee]

one day it's gonna happen and we are all gonna be like yea aliens we know

[unsortedguy]

"you think we ever going to meet them?"

"I hope so, dont you?"

KAABOOOM!

[ProfessorBelz]

Definitely an early build of the Halo Ring. Get ready guys :(

[xXAaronXx]

Ign: 6.5
Good: alien civilization
Bad: no wifi

[Hissingace]

I'm so glad you guys cover this sort of thing. Definitely news I'm interested in and I don't really go out of my way to find the news otherwise.

[dawidbrus]

if there are aliens there they better not attack so we have time to play fallout 4

[lilwaly]

Good use of the halo footage lmao. it's the forerunners for sure we all gonna die

[bingbung]

If that star really does have alien megastructures, they for sure already know about us. They must think we're real cute.

[MySavageDynasty]

does anyone else find it weird that NASA is all the sudden making all these new discoveries?

[icycool]

I think that there slowly feeding us this info so that when they tell us about aliens we wouldn't be freaked out

[marcellofabrizio]

We dont have wory, its probably Master Chief blowing up some halos....

[tlozmeowcatz]

For once I actually enjoy reading the comments an an IGN comment section. Probably won't happen again, but it's a welcome change :)

[MisterInevitable]

This is some pretty interesting stuff. One would think if we just noticed them within a few years, surely they most of noticed us by now. I hope it's actually revealed within my lifetimes aliens from outerspace are real.

[MShogunH]

Scientists: "We see something unusual orbiting a star. We aren't sure what it is yet..."

Media: "SCIENTISTS FIND MEGASTRUCTURES BUILT BY ALIENS!!"

[EcstasyTiger]

It's a possible dyson sphere in progress :)

[RollerBagRobby]

What people don't understand is that even if these were "alien megastructures" then they are mostly like gone by now or the star is gone. It's more than a 1000 light years away so what these astronomers are seeing happened a long time ago.

[miggssamonte]

my teacher and I were talking about this. We said that if there are aliens then why would they come here? It's like ants you see a colony you just pass by thats what we are to them ants

[ThePrehistoricMaster]

There's only one possible explanation. IT'S JOHN CENA!!