{"id":218978,"date":"2025-07-29T08:35:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T13:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/whats-the-lifetime-of-a-dyson-megaswarm"},"modified":"2025-07-29T08:35:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T13:35:14","slug":"whats-the-lifetime-of-a-dyson-megaswarm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/whats-the-lifetime-of-a-dyson-megaswarm","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s the lifetime of a Dyson megaswarm?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/whats-the-lifetime-of-a-dyson-megaswarm2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 2015, astronomer Tabetha Boyajian and colleagues announced the discovery of unusual light fluctuations coming from a star about 1,500 light-years away. It came to be known as \u201cTabby\u2019s star\u201d or \u201cBoyajian\u2019s star,\u201d and the peculiar alterations in the light transmitted to Earth quickly drew attention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2015, astronomer Tabetha Boyajian and colleagues announced the discovery of unusual light fluctuations coming from a star about 1,500 light-years away. It came to be known as \u201cTabby\u2019s star\u201d or \u201cBoyajian\u2019s star,\u201d and the peculiar alterations in the light transmitted to Earth quickly drew attention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218978","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218978\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}