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Scientists looking at three rare and radiant pulsating stars have found they each are surrounded by a fairly bright layer of matter, a “cocoon,” that has never before been detected around stars of this kind.
The astronomers think the cocoons form as the stars shed huge amounts of mass at a tremendously faster rate than normal stars like the Sun.
The cocoons are about two to three times larger than the stars and about 4 percent as bright, very bright considering that these pulsating stars themselves are incredibly radiant. One of the enveloped stars is 400 times brighter than the Sun.
Originally posted by Beachcoma
No it's not. We won't be able to see a Dyson Sphere because it would be totally covered. No radiation to detect = nothing detected.
Originally posted by Beachcoma
Ah... ok. It was hard to notice because suddenly we're talking about civilization types. By the way, we're currently a Type 0 civilization right? Unless HAARP really controls the weather, in which case we'd be crossing into the threshold of a Type 1 civ, right?