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Post by pickinduck on Apr 17, 2016 20:05:25 GMT -6
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Post by pickinduck on Apr 18, 2016 6:23:32 GMT -6
I was just thinking that drawing a picture of one of those signaling billboards may be a good easy first astronomical sketch or drawing to do?
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Post by sherlew99 on Apr 18, 2016 9:06:50 GMT -6
It might be, yes.
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Post by pickinduck on Apr 18, 2016 14:45:47 GMT -6
It hit me today that for months in the news there was about a possible alien mega-structure around some star, could that be one of these signaling billboards?
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Post by sherlew99 on Apr 18, 2016 19:22:45 GMT -6
That's a good possibility.  |
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Post by pickinduck on Apr 21, 2016 16:56:03 GMT -6
I would like to know what star that is and its characteristics?
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Post by pickinduck on Apr 21, 2016 17:01:00 GMT -6
KIC 8462852, since nicknamed "Tabby's Star" after discoverer Tabetha S. Boyajian.
Now I want to know where it is located a long with its size and type?
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Post by pickinduck on Apr 21, 2016 17:14:00 GMT -6
Start here. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KIC_8462852Then go to here. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-type_main-sequence_starAn F-type main-sequence star (F V) is a main-sequence, hydrogen-fusing star of spectral type F and luminosity class V. These stars have from 1.0 to 1.4 times the mass of the Sun and surface temperatures between 6,000 and 7,600 K.[1], Tables VII and VIII. This temperature range gives the F-type stars a yellow-white hue. Because a main-sequence star is referred to as a dwarf star, this class of star may also be termed a yellow-white dwarf. Famous examples include Procyon A and Gamma Virginis A and B.[2] and KIC 8462852.And that is the info we need if we are going to draw a picture of what we think the structure might be in front of or around the star. |
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Post by pickinduck on Apr 21, 2016 17:31:11 GMT -6
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Post by pickinduck on Apr 23, 2016 5:37:47 GMT -6
What do you think it might be, a Dyson sphere or swarm, or one of these bill boards, or something else?
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Post by sherlew99 on Apr 23, 2016 8:54:57 GMT -6
It could be a huge, long cluster of asteroids, but it would be cool if it were a kind of alien billboard.
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Post by pickinduck on Apr 23, 2016 19:51:59 GMT -6
I think this is a real milestone for science in that they are saying that they don't know what it is yet and wont until they get a better look. Up until now that hasn't been the case with like everything else.
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Post by pickinduck on Apr 25, 2016 7:40:58 GMT -6
Two good examples of this off the top of my head are oil and gravity
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