In January of 2020, in the first edition of the Atlantis Rising Research Report, we told you about the strange case of the disappearing stars.
Comparing photos of the sky from 2016 with images of the same area taken in 1950, astronomers discovered, to their amazement, that over 100 stars had vanished without a trace. The matter was written up in the Astronomical Journal by Beatriz Villarroel of Stockholm University and Spain’s Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, in an article entitled “Our Sky now and then−searches for lost stars and impossible effects as probes of advanced extra-terrestrial civilizations,” (https://arxiv. org/abs/1606.08992) but so far, nobody has been able to explain what happened to the missing stars.
Fast-forward to June 30. A new paper in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society reports that a ‘monster’ star, two million times brighter than the sun, has disappeared without a trace. This time though, we have been provided with some theories deemed more acceptable to mainstream science, and not involving alien civilizations. This may be, reported the authoritative web site LiveScience.com, the case of a truly “unprecedented” act of stellar suicide culminating in a truly massive black hole. The astrophysicists, however, remain at some pains to explain just how the star could have done such a thing without first exploding in an immense supernova, and, in the process, getting the full attention of experts on Earth.
As we indicated in ARRR #1, the sudden, and unexplained, disappearance of stars is causing consternation in some astronomical circles. Indeed, when considered in context with the anomalous ‘dimming’—or flickering—of orbs like ‘Tabby’s Star’ (KIC 8462852, named after discoverer, astronomer Tabetha Boyajian), the possibility of some kind of unimaginably advanced technology like a ‘Dyson Sphere’ has not yet been fully dismissed. (“In his 1937 novel Star Maker, science fiction writer Olaf Stapleton envisioned an unbelievably advanced ET civilization with energy needs so great that it must capture the entire energy output of a star, and, to do the job, it engineers a kind of vast spherical lantern shade. The idea was later seriously considered by theoretical physicist and mathematician Freeman Dyson, who inadvertently gave it his name.” ARRR #1)
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Mega Engineering in the Stars?
