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Astronomers looked at 260,000 stars to find alien megastructures in the Milky Way


When it comes to finding alien life in the universe, it may not be what you can find, but what you can’t. That’s exactly what a team of researchers set out to do by estimating just how many Dyson Spheres, a hypothetical energy source, could be built around stars in the Milky Way.

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