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What building a Dyson sphere around the sun could do

The bold question-askers at What If explore what building a Dyson Sphere around the sun could achieve. Donald Trump health update issued after physical 10 Secrets McDonald’s Employees Aren't Supposed ...
Futurism

What Are Alien Dyson Spheres, Why Are They So Janky, and Why Are They Doomed to Go Undetected?

In the 1960s, physicist Freeman Dyson proposed that advanced alien civilizations could be building enormous megastructures around a star to harness its energy. Such a move would allow a civilization ...
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Dyson spheres could really exist — but there's a catch

Dyson spheres, the hypothetical mega-structures that advanced alien civilizations might use to enclose a star and harness its energy, suffer from a fatal flaw: They are catastrophically unstable. But ...
NextBigFuture

Candidate Dyson Sphere Detections Are Regular Stars with Black Hole Galaxy Behind

They used high-resolution e-MERLIN and EVN (e-VLBI) observations of a radio source associated with Dyson Sphere candidate G, identified as part of Project Hephaistos. The radio source, VLASS ...
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What Are Dyson Spheres And What Are Our Chances Of Finding Them?

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and ...
New Scientist

Letter: Would a Dyson sphere be a monumental own goal?

There are two problems with arguments in favour of Dyson spheres, massive structures that advanced alien species might build to capture all of a star’s energy. First, long before a civilisation could ...
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Could Dyson Spheres Be The Universe’s Missing Mass?

Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...
Business Insider

At least 7 stars in our galaxy have the potential to harbor advanced alien technology, researchers find

Researchers found seven stars in our galaxy that might host alien megastructures called Dyson spheres. But these stars' strange behavior could also be explained by other phenomena, like clouds of dust ...
CNN

‘Dyson spheres’ were theorized as a way to detect alien life. Scientists say they’ve found potential evidence

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Alien Energy-Collecting Megastructures May Have Been Detected Around Stars

Seven different stars in our galaxy may show signs of being contained within Dyson spheres, megastructures that could be constructed by advanced civilizations to harness radiation energy from stars, ...
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Alien 'Dyson sphere' megastructures could surround at least 7 stars in our galaxy, new studies suggest

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