How might we find aliens who don't broadcast their presence? Decades ago, physicist Freeman Dyson proposed looking in the infrared part of the spectrum for signatures of waste heat from civilizations advanced enough to use all the energy coming from their parent stars. The conceptual image became known as a Dyson sphere.
At the time, we lacked the technology to conduct such a search, but we have it now, and Penn State researchers are beginning to look.
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