Dyson spheres are named after inventor Freeman J. Dyson. A Dyson sphere is a megastructures that civilizations could use to harness the power of stars.

The evidence for aliens around one of the weirdest stars in our galaxy — Boyajian's star — is not looking promising.

If humans want to expand into space, it will take us incredible amounts of energy. How do we do that? Easy: we will just use the sun’s energy by realizing the most ambitious construction project in history. This is how it works.

Amazon’s one-of-a-kind spherical addition to its downtown Seattle headquarters officially opened this week.  The Spheres are part of the e-commerce giant’s $4 billion headquarters that’s now where 40,000 employee work, and perhaps not coincidentally, 40,000 plants fill the space. Ron Gagliardo, senior manager of horticultural services at Amazon and the person who oversaw the project’s…

Humanity has mapped the Milky Way better than ever with ESA's Gaia. But 1.7 billion stars later, there are still no Dyson spheres.

Solar Sphere: Not final GD cover

Here is the image of a Dyson sphere surrounding a star.

Human civilization has reached type II. The Dyson Sphere mega structures is built, encompassing compatible stars across galaxies. Within the structure wall are virtual planets, acting as bases for civilization for the maintenance of the Dyson Sphere. Getting there requires ships going through the hypergates, which send space ships into hyperspeed within the mega structure. 3D base render in Maya, over-paint in Photoshop. Check out my instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tomjdavis.art/

The idea of a Dyson sphere is a fascinating one. It’s a megastructure built around a star that would be capable of harvesting the star’s entire energy output. This sort of shell around the star would…

Mass Effect Andromeda concept done for a the surface of Meridian (a massive Remnant dyson sphere).

named in honor of the ship Mr Scott crashed she's been designed with technology found in the Dyson sphere she is a heavy battle cruiser carrying 12 pulsed phaser cannons 8 phaser arrays and 4 torpedo tube's

Part of the "Megastructures: The Visual Encyclopedia" book project, on sale now at http://www.neilblevins.com/projects/megastructures/megastructures.htm Speculative Fiction Reviewer James Davis Nicoll first proposed the Nicoll-Dyson Laser as a weapon where the satellites of a Dyson swarm surrounding a sun act as a phased array laser emitter capable of delivering their energy to a planet-sized target at a range of millions of light years. The laser could do anything from wiping out the atmosphere on the target planet to cracking the planet in half depending on the focus of the beam (a collimated beam would be the diameter of the Dyson sphere used to generate it, whereas a focused beam could be more concentrated). Other factors that could effect the beam’s intensity include the size and energy output of the sun surrounded by the Dyson Swarm, the efficiency of the swarm’s solar energy conversion, and the amount of time the laser was pointed at the target planet.

Completely encloses a star with a habitat.

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