{"id":190085,"date":"2024-05-25T09:32:37","date_gmt":"2024-05-25T14:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/dyson-spheres-astronomers-report-potential-candidates-for-alien-megastructures-heres-what-to-make-of-it"},"modified":"2024-05-25T09:32:37","modified_gmt":"2024-05-25T14:32:37","slug":"dyson-spheres-astronomers-report-potential-candidates-for-alien-megastructures-heres-what-to-make-of-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/dyson-spheres-astronomers-report-potential-candidates-for-alien-megastructures-heres-what-to-make-of-it","title":{"rendered":"Dyson Spheres: Astronomers Report Potential Candidates for Alien Megastructures\u2014Here\u2019s What to Make of It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/dyson-spheres-astronomers-report-potential-candidates-for-alien-megastructures-heres-what-to-make-of-it2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There are three ways to look for evidence of alien technological civilizations. One is to look out for deliberate attempts by them to communicate their existence, for example, through <a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2021\/01\/07\/seti-new-signal-excites-alien-hunters-heres-how-we-could-find-out-if-its-real\/\">radio broadcasts<\/a>. Another is to look for evidence of them <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/has-earth-been-visited-by-an-alien-spaceship-harvard-professor-avi-loeb-vs-everybody-else-155509\">visiting the solar system<\/a>. And a third option is to look for signs of large-scale engineering projects in <a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/tag\/space\/\">space<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A team of astronomers have taken the third approach by searching through recent astronomical survey data to identify seven candidates for <a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/mnras\/article\/531\/1\/695\/7665761\">alien megastructures<\/a>, known as Dyson spheres, \u201cdeserving of further analysis.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This is a detailed study looking for \u201coddballs\u201d among stars\u2014objects that might be alien megastructures. However, the authors are careful not to make any overblown claims. The seven objects, all located within 1,000 light-years of Earth, are \u201cM-dwarfs\u201d\u2014a class of stars that are smaller and less bright than the sun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are three ways to look for evidence of alien technological civilizations. One is to look out for deliberate attempts by them to communicate their existence, for example, through radio broadcasts. Another is to look for evidence of them visiting the solar system. And a third option is to look for signs of large-scale engineering [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life","category-engineering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190085\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}