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Strange Signals from Space: 'Space's Deepest Secrets' Investigates (Video)

Strange Signals from Space: 'Space's Deepest Secrets' Investigates (Video)

Researchers have wondered about the source of fast radio bursts, or FRBs, since they discovered the strange, powerful blasts of radio light in the skies in 2007. A recent study speculated that these bursts could come from radio transmitters used to propel aliens across the skies. The episode features an interview with Tabetha Boyajian, an astronomer currently at Louisiana State University who first detected the strangely dimming star KIC 8462852.