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Breakthrough Listen Project Scans 60 Million Stars, Finds Zero Aliens By Ryan Whitwam on May 6, 2021 at 7:15 am
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Scientists with the Breakthrough Listen project took up the mantle of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) several years ago, continuing the decades-long search for E.T. The project has just released its largest survey to date, consisting of more than 60 million stars…and no aliens.
There are numerous ways we might detect alien life, such as the presence of megastructures that obscure starlight or specific biosignatures in an exoplanet’s atmosphere. However, scanning for radio signals is the most efficient technique available with our current level of technology. Breakthrough Listen conducted its latest survey along a line of sight toward the center of the galaxy, taking advantage of the increasing star density to cover as many hypothet
Michael Collins, the forgotten astronaut of Apollo 11 dies, age 90
Sometimes referred to as the forgotten member of the historic Apollo 11 mission Michael Collins never got to walk on the moon, but has been hailed as a true pioneer.
US astronaut Michael Collins piloted the spacecraft on the Apollo 11 mission that first saw humans walk on the moon
US astronaut Michael Collins, who piloted the ship on the historic Apollo 11 mission that saw the first humans walk on the moon, died on Wednesday. He was 90 years old.
Collins family said he died following a battle with cancer.
Remembering the forgotten astronaut
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But we still have much to learn, such as what causes them.
We know the intense bursts originate in galaxies billions of light years away. We have also used these bursts (called FRBs) to find missing matter that couldn’t be found otherwise.
With teams of astronomers around the world racing to understand their enigma, how did we get to where we are now?
The first burst
The first FRB was discovered in 2007 by a team led by British-American astronomer Duncan Lorimer using Murriyang, the traditional Indigenous name for the iconic Parkes radio telescope (image, top).
The team found an incredibly bright pulse so bright that many astronomers did not believe it to be real. But there was yet more intrigue.
Artemis, Orion and the quest to get humans to the moon again
A virtual tour of European Service Modules headed for the moon on NASA s human spaceflight program Artemis is not what it seems. Astronauts will fly to the moon and an orbiting base but it s gentlemen first, please.
A cleanroom is a surreal space inhabited almost exclusively by enthusiastic men
If you ve ever been on a tour of a cleanroom a sterile environment where engineers build and test satellites and other spacecraft you will know it s a pretty surreal experience.
You re standing there, starring up at a rough and unfinished-looking object, seemingly wrapped in kitchen aluminum foil, with wires and solar panels sticking out at various angles and it s tough imagining what the thing will actually do when it s in an operational environment.