It is interesting how the original scientific article doesn't even have much in the way of an "unexplained anomaly", which might serve as a seed
for such wonderfully creative delusions as "slightly advanced civilizations". Truly creative in a way that makes me smile.
The original work of very clever observational radio astronomy:
arxiv.org...
simply reports their method of resolving a ring-like structure around a star in another galaxy. The remarkable thing is not so much that this ring
exists (which are really quite common around stars, my understanding is that the majority of single stars tend to have some ring of material around
them), but that we were able to detect it from such a long way away.
