Forty-two antennas are now pointed toward the universe's latest mystery, searching for what some researchers speculate could be an alien megastructure that may surround a star 1,500 light-years from Earth.
Astronomers from the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Institute (SETI) have started to look a bit closer at the star using their Allen Telescope Array (ATA), a system of relatively small radio dishes with a total of 42 antennas that lies about 300 miles northeast of San Francisco, Space.com reports. They are hoping to hear radio signals coming from the vicinity of KIC 8462852, a star first detected by NASA's Kepler space telescope.
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