塔貝莎．菠耶金: 宇宙中最神秘的一顆星

宇宙中最神秘的一顆星

一個巨大、地球1000倍大小的物體遮蔽了遙遠的一顆名為KIC 8462852的星星，但沒人可以確知那是什麼樣的物體。在天文學家塔貝莎．菠耶金調查這顆巨大、奇特的物體可能是什麼的時候，她的一位同事有個奇特的猜想：會不會是外星文明蓋的巨型建築結構呢？這樣超凡的想法，需要超凡的證據。這場演講，菠耶金將帶我們一起來看看面對未知事物時，科學家如何研究和驗證假說。

A distant star, KIC 8462852, baffled astronomers when its brightness dipped by over 20 percent, hinting at something massive—possibly 1,000 times Earth's area—blocking its light. Citizen scientists, not computers, first spotted the star’s strange behavior in the Kepler data, igniting a global scientific puzzle. Natural explanations, from comets to planetary collisions, fell short, while speculation reached as far as alien megastructures. The ongoing investigation unites professionals and amateurs, highlighting the power of human curiosity in the face of the unknown.