{"id":231959,"date":"2024-06-13T18:57:50","date_gmt":"2024-06-13T18:57:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/13\/dozens-of-stars-show-signs-of-dyson-spheres-built-by-advanced-alien-civilisations\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:17:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:17:11","slug":"dozens-of-stars-show-signs-of-dyson-spheres-built-by-advanced-alien-civilisations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/13\/dozens-of-stars-show-signs-of-dyson-spheres-built-by-advanced-alien-civilisations\/","title":{"rendered":"Dozens of stars show signs of Dyson spheres built by advanced alien civilisations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure class=\"ArticleImage\">\n<div class=\"Image__Wrapper\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"Image\" width=\"1350\" height=\"900\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/10135213\/SEI_203314857.jpg\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1288px) 837px, (min-width: 1024px) calc(57.5vw + 55px), (min-width: 415px) calc(100vw - 40px), calc(70vw + 74px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/10135213\/SEI_203314857.jpg?width=300 300w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/10135213\/SEI_203314857.jpg?width=400 400w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/10135213\/SEI_203314857.jpg?width=500 500w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/10135213\/SEI_203314857.jpg?width=600 600w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/10135213\/SEI_203314857.jpg?width=700 700w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/10135213\/SEI_203314857.jpg?width=800 800w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/10135213\/SEI_203314857.jpg?width=837 837w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/10135213\/SEI_203314857.jpg?width=900 900w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/10135213\/SEI_203314857.jpg?width=1003 1003w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/10135213\/SEI_203314857.jpg?width=1100 1100w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/10135213\/SEI_203314857.jpg?width=1200 1200w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/10135213\/SEI_203314857.jpg?width=1300 1300w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/10135213\/SEI_203314857.jpg?width=1400 1400w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/10135213\/SEI_203314857.jpg?width=1500 1500w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/10135213\/SEI_203314857.jpg?width=1600 1600w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/10135213\/SEI_203314857.jpg?width=1674 1674w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/10135213\/SEI_203314857.jpg?width=1700 1700w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/10135213\/SEI_203314857.jpg?width=1800 1800w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/10135213\/SEI_203314857.jpg?width=1900 1900w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/10135213\/SEI_203314857.jpg?width=2006 2006w\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-image-context=\"Article\" data-image-id=\"2430604\" data-caption=\"Dyson spheres could capture the energy from a star\" data-credit=\"dotted zebra\/Alamy\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"ArticleImageCaption\">\n<div class=\"ArticleImageCaption__CaptionWrapper\">\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Title\">Dyson spheres could capture the energy from a star<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Credit\">dotted zebra\/Alamy<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>Two surveys of millions of stars in our galaxy have revealed mysterious spikes in infrared heat coming from dozens of them. Astronomers say this could be evidence for alien civilisations harnessing energy from their stars by using a vast construction known as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg24933190-800-dyson-spheres-how-to-spot-an-alien-megastructure\/\">Dyson sphere<\/a> \u2013 although they can\u2019t fully rule out more mundane explanations.<\/p>\n<p>First proposed in the 1960s, Dyson spheres are hypothesised structures that could surround entire stars to absorb their energy, a\u2026<\/p>\n<div class=\"ArticleCorrections\">\n<div class=\"ArticleCorrections__Correction\">\n<h4 class=\"ArticleCorrections__CorrectionDate\">Article amended on 14 May 2024<\/h4>\n<p><em>We have corrected the selection of stars the two teams looked at.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2430601-dozens-of-stars-show-signs-of-hosting-advanced-alien-civilisations\/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&#038;utm_source=NSNS&#038;utm_medium=RSS&#038;utm_content=home\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Dyson spheres could capture the energy from a star dotted zebra\/Alamy Two surveys of millions of stars in our galaxy have revealed mysterious spikes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":231960,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231959"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}