Are These Strange Signals Evidence of Alien Life?
Whenever anyone says that it's aliens, you can be pretty sure that it's not aliens. However, a team of scientists are making the case that maybe, just maybe, it is this time.
Two astronomers from the Université Laval in Quebec have published a study examining a large number of stars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. They found that of the millions of stars catalogued by the Survey, a handful were exhibiting "spectral modulation." Essentially, the stars were changing color slightly, and these color fluctuations appear to have a repeatable pattern.
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What's more, this spectral modulation appears to be identical across many different stars. The study authors believe that this is evidence of an alien civilization manipulating stars to send us a message.
Of course, there are other explanations for this seemingly coordinated behavior. The authors believe that this spectral modulation could also be the result of some kind of rare chemical makeup only present in a handful of stars.
And currently, this results would have to be independently verified by another observatory before we can take them seriously. There is still substantial doubt in the astronomical community that these results are evidence of extraterrestrial life.
However, if these results are verified by additional studies, then it could be strong evidence that another intelligent species in the Cosmos is trying to reach us.
Source: Astronomy Magazine
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