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How a mysterious star could help the search for extraterrestrial life
Scientists hope studies into Boyajian’s star could lead to enhanced techniques for identifying distant planetary civilisations
Searching for Dyson spheres – huge planet-sized panels of solar arrays – will be one key route, though other ways of pinpointing the handiwork of aliens will also be needed. Its secrets were revealed by an army of citizen scientists, members of the public who collected and analysed the vast reams of data from the instruments that probed the star, said Lintott. “It was their combined analyses of data about Boyajian’s that showed it was behaving in a very odd manner – and it is very likely they will be involved in fingering other weird stars in our galaxy in future projects.
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