Since the Third Earl of Rosse began work on his world-changing Leviathan telescope in the early 1840 s Birr has been at the centre of the world of celestial exp.
Since the Third Earl of Rosse began work on his world-changing Leviathan telescope in the early 1840 s Birr has been at the centre of the world of celestial exp.
We should be intrigued, but not too excited (yet). Any interesting signal has to go through a lot of tests to check whether it truly carries the signature of extraterrestrial technology.
Technosignature searches have been ongoing since the 1960s, when the American astronomer Frank Drake pointed the 26-metre Tatel telescope toward two nearby Sun-like stars and scanned them for signs of technology.