8 hours agoAlarmed scientists: Getting mysterious signals from a nearby star
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(9 years ago)Astronomers who are hunting for the habitable world beyond our solar system say they have received the strange “syal” coming from a nearby star, 11 light years away. Scientists from the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico are studying red jungle stars in the hope that they can find planets orbiting them. More [...]
Scientists from the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico are studying red jungle stars in the hope that they can find planets orbiting them.
On May 12, they noticed mysterious radio signals coming out of a star named Ross 128.
Can these radio signals be signs of alien life?
Professor Abel Méndez, planetary astrobiologist and director of the Planetary Adaptation Laboratory at Puerto Rico University, does not think that it is very possible.
If you are asking, the repeated hypothesis of foreigners is at the bottom of many better explanations,” wrote on a recent blog post.
Another theory is that it may be what are called solar fireworks, or powerful bursts of energy that take out the star's surface and travel at easy speed.
A second theory is that the signals actually come from another object inside Ross 128's visual field. However, as Mendez says, “does not have [many] close objects in Ross 128's field of view, which further deepens the mystery
