Tabby’s Star: Berkeley investigates mysterious star

Tabby’s star has provoked so much excitement, with speculation that it hosts a highly advanced civilization capable of building orbiting megastructures to capture the star’s energy, that UC Berkeley’s Breakthrough Listen project is devoting hours of time on the Green Bank radio telescope to see if they can detect any signals from intelligent extraterrestrials. Breakthrough Listen, which was created last year with $100 million in funding from the Breakthrough Prize Foundation and its founder, internet inves