Did We Just Detect Dyson Spheres? Featuring Dr. Gabriella Contardo
A new paper by Gabriella Contardo and David W. Hogg, reveals a large-scale search combining observations from ESA Gaia DR3, 2MASS, and NASA WISE, leading to the identification of 53 unique objects with significant mid-infrared excesses, potentially indicative of Dyson Spheres or Alien megastructures.
‘Dyson spheres’ were theorized as a way to detect alien life. Scientists say they’ve found potential evidence
https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/13/scienc...
Papers
"A Data-Driven Search For Mid-Infrared Excesses Among Five Million Main-Sequence FGK Stars", Contardo and Hogg, 2024
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.18941
"Project Hephaistos - II. Dyson sphere candidates from Gaia DR3, 2MASS, and WISE", Suazo et al, 2024
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.02927
"IRAS-based Whole-Sky Upper Limit on Dyson Spheres", Carrigan, 2005
https://arxiv.org/pdf/0811.2376
A planetary collision afterglow and transit of the resultant debris cloud
https://www.nature.com/articles/s4158...
A Star-sized Impact-produced Dust Clump in the Terrestrial Zone of the HD 166191 System
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10...
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