New Study Supports Natural Causes, Not Alien Activity, Explain Mystery Star’s Behavior

by eNews Park Forest on May 10, 2016

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by David Salisbury

Nashville, TN-(ENEWSPF)- Sorry, E.T. lovers, but the results of a new study make it far less likely that KIC 8462852, popularly known as Tabby’s star, is the home of industrious aliens who are gradually enclosing it in a vast shell called a Dyson sphere.

Public interest in the star, which sits about 1,480 light-years away in the constellation Cygnus, began last fall when Yale…