PSU astronomy professor thinks aliens are building shit in the sky

Penn State Astronomy professor Jason Wright has made some seriously other worldly news.

According to The Atlantic, for about four years, starting in 2009, the Kepler Space Telescope watched an “unusual star, invisible to the naked eye” that sits between the Cygnus and Lyra constellations.

Scientists were asked to look at the light patterns of the star on their free time from home to help astronomers understand what was happening. They noticed a “big mess of matter circling the star.”

There was another astronomer that published a paper on natural possibilities of the light formation, but now Jason Wright is planning on writing up another interpretation of the patterns and how they might have formed.

Professor Jason Wright

Wright might be onto something big with his idea that the star is surrounded by what seems to megastructures, possibly being used to collect energy. Although there may be natural causes, “this looked like something you would expect an alien civilization to build.”

Woah. Penn State professor Jason Wright is proposing that this wasn’t formed overnight, but rather created. His next step along with other scientists is to see if this star and these potential alien megastructures emit radio waves.

If they find enough waves coming through, they’ll go bigger and head to New Mexico where they can find out if these waves are anything similar to the ones that Earth sends out using radio stations.

Possibly what were up against

According to his Department page, Professor Wright got his Bachelor’s in Astronomy and Physics from Boston University, and his Master’s and PhD in Astrophysics from University of California Berkeley. Now a professor at Penn State, he’s gaining attention for himself and the school through his recent proposition of other life forms and basically killing the astronomy game.