Last year the developer of Elite: Dangerous, Frontier Developments, teased us by saying there were still secrets to be discovered in their massive adventure game.
This has of course sparked the curiosity of players, and one individual going by the moniker semtexzv on Youtube has discovered an alien life-form at these coordinates on Merope 5C: -026.3496°, -156.4044°, sparking a search of the area by interested explorers.
To see the noisy barnacles you can navigate to the coordinates above with similarly intrigued fellow adventurers, or you can save yourself some time by watching the discovery over on Youtube. Over in the regular Elite newsletter, Frontier had this to say on the matter:
People have been searching for 'barnacles' ever since they caught a glimpse of something strange in the Elite Dangerous: Horizons launch trailer. Although no evidence has been corroborated, suspicions are high that these discoveries are related to the Unknown Artefacts that many Commanders have been analyzing for a while now.