{"id":422811,"date":"2018-01-03T17:10:40","date_gmt":"2018-01-03T21:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=363336ab9d170862d0b2c4428cf46c3b"},"modified":"2018-01-03T17:10:40","modified_gmt":"2018-01-03T21:10:40","slug":"sorry-sci-fi-fans-stars-oddness-not-due-to-alien-mega-structure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=422811","title":{"rendered":"Sorry, sci-fi fans: star&#8217;s oddness not due to alien mega-structure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (Reuters) &#8211; It was too good to be true. Scientists have ruled out the most exotic explanation &#8212; an orbiting alien mega-structure &#8212; for the behavior of a celestial oddity dubbed Tabby&#8217;s Star that has been puzzling scientists with its sporadic dimming and brightening.<\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.reuters.com\/~ff\/reuters\/scienceNews?a=Iji4NLye5q4:SZC48tQL_t8:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/reuters\/scienceNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.reuters.com\/~ff\/reuters\/scienceNews?a=Iji4NLye5q4:SZC48tQL_t8:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/reuters\/scienceNews?i=Iji4NLye5q4:SZC48tQL_t8:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.reuters.com\/~ff\/reuters\/scienceNews?a=Iji4NLye5q4:SZC48tQL_t8:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/reuters\/scienceNews?i=Iji4NLye5q4:SZC48tQL_t8:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/reuters\/scienceNews\/~4\/Iji4NLye5q4\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (Reuters) &#8211; It was too good to be true. Scientists have ruled out the most exotic explanation &#8212; an orbiting alien mega-structure &#8212; for the behavior of a celestial oddity dubbed Tabby&#8217;s Star that has been puzzling scientists with its sporad&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-422811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=422811"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":422812,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422811\/revisions\/422812"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=422811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=422811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=422811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}