From what is going on, to what means could be causing it all!
Aliens or Natural Phenomenon?
The Mystery of 100 Missing Stars!
So, from that title, you might have an idea of what exactly is going on, and yet, you
might still be confused by what exactly is transpiring here, and just as importantly,
what aliens have to do with it.
Here is the very basic of it.
An international research group led by Beatriz Villarroel from the Nordic Institute for Theoretical
Physics in Sweden and the Institute for Astrophysics on the Canary Islands have been looking at
the universe for some time.
What's more, they like to compare star charts and see what's new, what's not, what's changed,
and so on and so forth.
During one of these projects, they found a "hole" in space where things used to be, and
are now...gone.
The group’s project, called Vanishing and Appearing Sources during a Century of Observations
(VASCO) has been comparing mapped stars listed in the U.S. Naval Observatory Catalogue (USNO)
B 1.0, dating from the 1950s, with those in another, more recent sky catalog, the Pan-STARRS
Data Release (DR1).
A total of 150,000 objects were found in the older catalogue (which lists 600 million stars)
that did not have a readily identifiable counterpart in the new star survey, even though the Pan-STARRS
Data Release includes stars that are five times less bright than the faintest light
sources included in USNO.
Of these 150,000 anomalies, the authors visually inspected 24,000 candidates and discovered
that 100 of these point sources of light appear only in the older star survey.
And since then, apparently, they’ve vanished.
So basically...there are 100 stars in the sky that have been seen about 70 years ago...but
are somehow gone now...and no one is really sure why...
"But hey", you ask, "isn't it true that stars can naturally die on their own?
And 70 years is a long time, so isn't it fair to say that they could've just died over the
course of the time between the charts?"
Answer?
Yeah, technically.
And believe it or not, there are MANY different ways for stars to die.
Including them just naturally burning out, or them exploding, or becoming so dim that
they can't be seen, there's the hypothetical "Black Dwarf" star that could've happened,
and then, of course, there are Black Holes.
Which can be born from stars, or can kill stars if they get too close to one.
So as you can see, there are LOT of ways that a star can die naturally...but here's the
thing.
While it's true that there are a lot of ways for stars to die, and there's clear way of
knowing how many stars in the universe die within the course of an Earth year, there's
something odd about these 100 stars all dying within the span of a few decades.
For a star, a few decades isn't a long time when some of them (Red Dwarf Stars for example)
can last trillions of years.
Now true, just like a human, a decade or two doesn't seem like a long time...until it's
gone and you're dead, but for some scientists, it's just not adding up that ALL of these
stars died of natural causes despite the options being there.
And thus, the question becomes, "If it wasn't a natural cause...what is it?"
Well...Aliens.
Yes, aliens, we're saying it's possibly aliens.
This is not a joke, this is not a hoax, this is something that many serious people will
numerous degrees are wondering about.
Could aliens be the reason that these suns are gone?
The first explanation that many have been drooling over in terms of concept is the Dyson
Sphere, something you might have heard about before, including from some of our videos!
But for those who don't know, here is a good explanation of what a Dyson Sphere is and
what it does: "A Dyson sphere is a theoretical mega-engineering
project that encircles a star with platforms orbiting in tight formation.
It is the ultimate solution for living space and energy production, providing its creators
ample surface area for habitation and the ability to capture every bit of solar radiation
emanating from their central star."
If that was a little technical, I'll simplify it for you.
Imagine putting a box around our sun, and then being able to live on the outside of
that box.
The sun itself would still work, pouring radiation out and heat, and the Dyson Sphere itself
would convert that into basically a limitless form of energy that would power the outside
of the Dyson Sphere.
Dyson Spheres have been the stuff of sci-fi for almost 60 years now when it was conceptualized
by Freeman Dyson, of which the sphere was named after.
"But what does a Dyson Sphere have to do with alien life?" you might be thinking.
The answer is simple, though we of humanity have been thinking about Dyson Spheres for
many decades now, it's unfeasible for us to make one, for a whole host of reasons that
we won't get into.
But the theory is that if there are advanced civilizations out there, the ones that we've
also written about in various sci-fi stories, then it could be possible that THEY could
make a Dyson Sphere.
And so, if these 100 stars didn't "die", that would mean that they were covered up, which
is what the Dyson Sphere would do, and most importantly, we likely wouldn't be able to
detect that on our charts and maps because we wouldn't be looking for them, and they
wouldn't emit the kind of wavelengths we'd be wanting to identify in our scans.
Now you may be trying to picture a Dyson Sphere and say, "That must take forever to make!"
And to be fair, that is one of the reasons some scientists DON'T think that an alien
species had something to do with the stars disappearance.
Because to make a Dyson Sphere, you'd need an extraordinary amount of materials.
Scientists speculate to make one around our own sun (which is a Yellow Dwarf with a width
of over 864,000 miles) it would take more mass than all of the planets, moons and asteroids
in our solar system have to offer.
And you have to think that some of those stars that vanished are bigger than a Yellow Dwarf
Star, and thus would require even MORE materials to make happen.
Kind of daunting, don't you think?
Then again, while humanity has always been good at overcoming a situation and adapting
to ones needs, we also have been VERY bad at underestimating people or other races.
So while it is unfeasible for us to make a Dyson Sphere right now, it's potentially possible
that some alien species would be able to do it because they have technology we can't fathom.
So what might take us hundreds of years to do...might only take them a few decades, or
maybe even a few years!
It's hard to say.
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But why make a Dyson Sphere?
And more important, why make so many across the stars?
Well, that's assuming that there's more than one alien race doing this kind of thing, which
is possible, but for the sake of argument, let's say that this is one race that's expanding
across the stars and decided to make 100 Dyson Spheres.
Why would they do that?
Probably because they've got a massive population (that sounds familiar...) and are running
out of space and energy resources (also sounds familiar...) and are looking to expand to
other areas of space to keep things balanced (I swear I've heard of that before...).
As noted earlier, the size of a Dyson Sphere is meant to not just contain the sun and harness
its energy, but also to house a lot of people.
In terms of our own sun, we could fit 1.3 million Earths inside of it, so imagine having
all that space to live in?
Yeah, we wouldn't have to worry about overpopulation or energy deficiencies for a LONG time.
And maybe that's what the aliens are doing!
Maybe they've taken those stars because they had a long output of life and decided they
would be great energy generators.
They used their replicators and other technology and BAM!
Dyson Spheres...Dyson Spheres everywhere!