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[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

Would be funny if that failed star was actually an alien megaproject but we think it's a natural explanation that means a planet teeming with ancient life is assumed to be barren like the rest of them.

Is there a name for that, when something very interesting is mistaken for something very uninteresting? Not that a failed star full of biosignature molecules sounds uninteresting, do they have any explanation for that?