Project Hephaistos: Seven Candidate Mid-Infrared Emitters in a Gaia-Based Dyson Sphere Search

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Researchers using Project Hephaistos search for Dyson-sphere–like megastructures by analyzing infrared data from Gaia, 2MASS, and WISE, reducing about 5 million sources to seven ambiguous mid-infrared emitters whose true nature—potentially debris disks around M dwarfs or something else—will only be revealed by follow-up optical spectroscopy.

Astronomers Are on the Hunt for Dyson Spheres
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Astronomers Are on the Hunt for Dyson Spheres

There’s something poetic about humanity’s attempt to detect other civilizations somewhere in the Milky Way’s expanse. There’s also something futile about it.