peculiar in the dust distribution but when there's a number of them and they're scattered around a big area where there's many many other stars that aren't doing anything like that then i think that pretty much rules that out inherent now these stars also probably aren't originally related right so they're probably all from all over the galaxy and have just been moving around through proper motion and this clustering gets even more mysterious than if you take that into account right yeah you can't really blame it on material that's inherently around these stars from the beginning yeah i think that's right and one of the other things that should be done and that again on my list is to look at the emotions and see if we can get any kind of sense that there anything in common in terms of emotion you know there are large groups of stars that are fairly scattered that have common motion and this is because they were a cluster which grew and expanded until the stars were quite far apart but nonetheless they retained that common motion and so looking for common motion to be something to do but i'll be very surprised if it turns out that that's the case and even if you did find some commonality you still have to explain why this particular group of stars has this weird dust juxtaposition and nothing else does you don't seem to see it very many very many other yeah right but it doesn't help right well anybody that's interested in this in this star kscNUMBER_TOKEN is used to the mystery deepening at this point because that's just just when you think you got something nope exactly it seems like it's gotten more mysterious rather than less now professor say a seti search what would they look for i mean obviously they'd look for radio emissions but what about laser and things like that are these suitable stars to look for with that type of thing in mind yeah certainly and uh one would hope that uh city people would find this interesting enough to to do both radio searches and optical searches and that was done for boyajian's star both of those were done and and of course didn't uh yield anything i would say though one of the problems with this is that if they do that and find nothing that of course doesn't mean there's not uh intelligent life there just means they're not sending the signals right now so if it's only things if you found it it'd be great if you don't find it it doesn't tell you a great deal and it has to be remembered that we're talking about some pretty distant stars here i think boyajian's star was over NUMBER_TOKEN light years distant right oh right so the closest one in this group is to about NUMBER_TOKEN about six six uh NUMBER_TOKEN light years away and then the most distant one is more like NUMBER_TOKEN so they're they're spread over quite an area or quite a region of the galaxy that makes seti harder because of the distance and if you're looking for a weak radio signal yeah it gets harder that is true yeah exactly what is your next step on trying to determine what these stars are doing is it just look for more or is it try and push ahead and get observations deeper observations of these stars yeah i think the next steps are well we've already mentioned a couple one is to go back to the all the infrared studies have been done and see if we can find anything in terms of excess emission in the red then i
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