Could a civilization move an entire star?

A star may seem impossible to move, but in theory, an advanced civilization could use the star’s own energy to slowly push it through space.

This hypothetical megastructure is called a stellar engine.

A stellar engine would work by capturing or redirecting part of a star’s radiation and using it to create thrust.

Because stars are extremely massive, the movement would be incredibly slow, but over millions of years, even a tiny push could change the path of an entire solar system.

Stellar engines show how far technology could theoretically go if a civilization survived long enough and mastered energy on a cosmic scale.

They also expand how we think about the future of life, space travel, and the engineering of entire star systems.

You discovered how a civilization might one day use a star’s own energy to move it across the galaxy.