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    Science is once again victim of catchy headlines.

    From the New Scientist article which Yahoo Finance(!) is quoting:

    What about those alien megastructures? Schafer is unconvinced. “The alien-megastructure idea runs wrong with my new observations,” he says, as he thinks even advanced aliens wouldn’t be able to build something capable of covering a fifth of a star in just a century. What’s more, such an object should radiate light absorbed from the star as heat, but the infrared signal from Tabby’s star appears normal, he says.

    So tl;dr: We don't know what it is, but it's probably not aliens.

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