The Atlantic
They have noticed something intriguing coming from the direction of Proxima Centauri.
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Last month, as 2020 drew to a close and we on Earth completed one of our strangest orbits around the sun, news broke that astronomers had picked up a mysterious signal from another star.
Astronomers could tell, from the specific properties of the beam of radio waves, that it wasn’t made by an act of nature, such as a cosmic explosion. The signal coming from the star’s direction was produced by technology.
The signal, known as BLC1, was intriguing, but when news of its detection leaked to