Image: ESO/M. Kornmesser
Researchers with the Breakthrough Listen project have detected a curious signal originating from Proxima Centauri, the nearest star to the Sun. The signal has been designated as a possible alien transmission, but like so many examples in the past, this latest detection is probably another dead end.
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Scientists with the $100 million Breakthrough Listen project, funded by Israeli-Russian billionaire Yuri Milner, are currently working on a research paper describing this signal, but news of the detection somehow leaked to The Guardian last week. With the cat comfortably out of the bag, details about the strange signal are now emerging, but the supporting data remains unavailable.
Telescope picks up mysterious radio waves coming from space
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Vědci hledající mimozemské civilizace zkoumají podezřelý signál, přišel od Proximy Centauri
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Alien Hunters Discover Mysterious Signal from Proxima Centauri
Strange radio transmissions appear to be coming from our nearest star system. Now scientists are trying to work out what is sending them
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Sixty-four-meter radio telescope at Parkes Observatory in Australia, which detected potential signals from Proxima Centauri last year. Credit: Lisa Maree Williams
It’s never aliens until it is. On December 18th news leaked in the British newspaper the
Guardian of a mysterious signal coming from the closest star to our own, Proxima Centauri, a star too dim to see from Earth with the naked eye that is nonetheless a cosmic stone’s throw away at just 4.2 light-years. Found this autumn in archival data gathered last year, the signal appears to emanate from the direction of our neighboring star and cannot yet be dismissed as Earth-based interference, raising the very faint prospect that it is a transmission from some form of advanced extraterrestrial int