7 hours agoA very strange radio signal coming from the nearest star
Periskopi(5 years ago)
(5 years ago)Scientists say they have identified a signal coming from Proxima Centauri, the closest star to our sun, which may be from a foreign civilization. The news first spread yesterday to a story of The Guardian. The signal was discovered by Breakthhrough Listen, a project founded for it [...]
The news first spread yesterday to a story of The Guardian. The signal was discovered by Breakthhrough Listen, a project founded to hear signs of alien life related to late physicist Stephen Hawking, broadcast the Telegraph.
“This is the first serious signal since”, a well-known researcher with the discovery who requested anonymity to discuss the job told the paper. “Wow! The “signal, recorded in 1977, is widely seen as the most promising find in the history of these discoveries, but the latest finding has surprised everyone.
According to Guardian sources, the signal was received from the Parkes telescope in Australia last year, where it appeared to have originated from the Proxima Centauuri system.
It attracted scholars ' interest for several reasons. One is that it's about 980MHz, a generation in which there shouldn't be any human spacecraft that transmits. Another is that its frequency is shifting in a way that scientists say can come from the surface of a orbital exoplanet é, and Proxima Centauri is known to have an exotic in “the habitable area”. Researchers are now working on the find, according to Guardian.
The people known to find also explained Scientific American that the signal did not appear to contain any information. In other words, it is basically just a ton and is likely to come from a space shuttle launched from Earth.
