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Dyson Spheres Around Dying Stars: Where to Look on the H–R Diagram

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What would an alien Dyson sphere — a shell built to capture a star's entire energy output — actually look like to our telescopes? A single-author study by Amirnezam Amiri models the infrared signatures of these hypothetical megastructures around two often-overlooked host stars: cooling white dwarfs and small, long-lived red M-dwarfs. Hosts Hope and Lauren walk through the radiative-balance…