{"id":9334,"date":"2015-10-31T11:01:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-31T00:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2015\/10\/31\/real-dx-the-mysterious-flicker-of-kic-846\/"},"modified":"2015-10-31T11:01:00","modified_gmt":"2015-10-31T00:01:00","slug":"real-dx-the-mysterious-flicker-of-kic-846","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2015\/10\/31\/real-dx-the-mysterious-flicker-of-kic-846\/","title":{"rendered":"Real DX: The Mysterious Flicker of  KIC 846"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americaspace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/dyson-swarm.png\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Artist's conception of a Dyson Sphere. Image Credit: Kevin Gill via Flickr CC By SA 2.0\" class=\" wp-image-87605\" src=\"http:\/\/www.americaspace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/dyson-swarm.png\" height=\"225\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;\"> <span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">Artist conception of a Dyson Sphere Alien Mega-structure<\/span><\/div>\n<p> <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"> <strong>This story somehow seemed appropriate for Halloween. But it is for real (this is Halloween, not April 1!).<\/strong> <strong>The role of amateur scientists in this matter is especially interesting, as is the radio-astronomy follow-up. Stay tuned! <\/strong><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"> <strong><\/strong> <\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/science\/archive\/2015\/10\/the-most-interesting-star-in-our-galaxy\/410023\/\"><strong>http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/science\/archive\/2015\/10\/the-most-interesting-star-in-our-galaxy\/410023\/<\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"> <strong><\/strong><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencefriday.com\/segments\/the-mysterious-flicker-behind-star-kic-8462852\/\"><strong>http:\/\/www.sciencefriday.com\/segments\/the-mysterious-flicker-behind-star-kic-8462852\/<\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"> <strong><\/strong><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seti.org\/seti-institute\/news\/alien-engineering-around-strange-star\"><strong>http:\/\/www.seti.org\/seti-institute\/news\/alien-engineering-around-strange-star<\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"> <strong><\/strong><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnet.com\/news\/the-full-story-behind-the-alien-megastructures-scientists-may-have-found-but-probably-didnt\/\"><strong>http:\/\/www.cnet.com\/news\/the-full-story-behind-the-alien-megastructures-scientists-may-have-found-but-probably-didnt\/<\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n<p> <\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americaspace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/star_alien_dips.png.CROP_.original-original.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.americaspace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/star_alien_dips.png.CROP_.original-original.png\" height=\"274\" width=\"400\" \/><\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artist conception of a Dyson Sphere Alien Mega-structure This story somehow seemed appropriate for Halloween. But it is for real (this is Halloween, not April 1!). The role of amateur scientists in this matter is especially interesting, as is the radio-astronomy follow-up. Stay tuned! http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/science\/archive\/2015\/10\/the-most-interesting-star-in-our-galaxy\/410023\/ http:\/\/www.sciencefriday.com\/segments\/the-mysterious-flicker-behind-star-kic-8462852\/ http:\/\/www.seti.org\/seti-institute\/news\/alien-engineering-around-strange-star http:\/\/www.cnet.com\/news\/the-full-story-behind-the-alien-megastructures-scientists-may-have-found-but-probably-didnt\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,30,111],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-radio-astronomy","category-seti"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}