According to RT, in a research paper published last month, he said that recent improvements in telescope technology mean that we can now easily identify alien outposts.
Professor Zuckerman’s controversial theory posits the existence of a “Dyson Spheres”, a massive hypothetical structure that completely encircles stars and captures a large proportion of their emitted energy, which experts have been searching for for decades.
Of course, scientists have never found a Dyson mantle, nor is there evidence of its existence, however, if they did, the structures would be a hallmark of an intelligent civilization capable of harnessing the resources of a planetary system.
Zuckerman, a former professor at the University of California who has published hundreds of research papers and books, believes that white dwarfs represent our best chance of finding such a structure and alien civilizations, because the massive creative structure will alter the stars’ infrared signals, making them easier to locate.
Professor Zuckerman said that white dwarfs are fairly ubiquitous in our galaxy, and emit a lot of heat, and claimed that this heat can be absorbed by the structure of the “Dyson mantle” and the strength of an alien civilization.
The astronomer argues that infrared data already collected by modern satellites can be scanned for signs of extraterrestrials.
These satellites include the “Spitzer”, “WISE”, “TESS” and “Kepler” telescopes.
Professor Zuckerman wrote: “It has been hypothesized that advanced technological civilizations will build giant space colonies and support infrastructures to orbit their stars. Using data from modern satellites… it is now possible to begin to restrict the frequency of observations of these alien civilizations in our Milky Way.”
And the scientist made some unofficial calculations regarding how many alien civilizations might be out there.
He believes that less than 3% of the habitable planets orbiting Sun-like stars host the life that built the Dyson mantle. The research was published in the preprint journal Arxiv.
