7 potential 'alien megastructures' spotted in our galaxy are not what they seem

livescience.com
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2 years ago
byiareuniquetoscience

Summary

Astronomers combed through a collection of odd stars that are candidates for Dyson spheres. The artificial constructs would be designed by aliens to leech energy from stars. Instead, the scientists found, the weird stars are more likely to be "hot dust-obscured galaxies"
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4 Comments

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eldiscipulo
2 years ago
livescience really trying to bait people all the way until the end with that "alien" focus
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boredgamer
2 years ago
Last paragraph is literally the only one that finally doesn't push the idea that they might be alien lol
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getthatmoneyyo
2 years ago
Whoever pushed for the "hot DOG" name is my kind of person!
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bambam
2 years ago
I want to see more of this kind of fun in science