Phil Plait and a (possible but unlikely) Dyson Sphere

Barry Haworth <[email protected]>
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See the link below for Phil Plait (write of the the Bad Astronomy
blog) for his take on a rather unusual star detected in the recent
Kepler mission.  Could it be a Dyson Sphere in the making?

http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2015/10/14/weird_star_strange_dips_in_brightness_are_a_bit_baffling.html

Short answer: probably not, but the star is very unusual and it is fun
to speculate.

Barry

(getting back into things after a long hiatus involving amateur theatricals.)

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