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Was that a dropped call from extraterrestrial life?
A spooky radio signal showed up after a radio telescope was aimed at the next star over from our sun. New York Times
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Nobody believes it was ET phoning, but radio astronomers admit they do not have an explanation yet for a beam of radio waves that apparently came from the direction of the star Proxima Centauri.
“It’s some sort of technological signal. The question is whether it’s Earth technology or technology from somewhere out yonder,” said Sofia Sheikh, a graduate student at Pennsylvania State University leading a team studying the signal and trying to decipher its origin. She is part of Breakthrough Listen, a $100 million effort funded by Yuri Milner, a Russian billionaire investor, to find alien radio waves. The project has now stumbled on its most intriguing pay dirt yet.
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Proxima Centauri and the space signal: Was that a dropped call from ET?
1 Jan, 2021 01:19 AM
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Alpha and Beta Centauri, photographed from Atacama Lodge, Chile. Proxima Centauri - the closest known star to the sun - is part of Alpha Centauri. Photo / Getty Images
Alpha and Beta Centauri, photographed from Atacama Lodge, Chile. Proxima Centauri - the closest known star to the sun - is part of Alpha Centauri. Photo / Getty Images
New York Times
By: Dennis Overbye
Nobody believes it was ET phoning, but radio astronomers admit they do not have an explanation yet for a beam of radio waves that apparently came from the direction of the star Proxima Centauri.