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The Atlantic They have noticed something intriguing coming from the direction of Proxima Centauri. Ian Waldie / Alamy Last month, as 2020 drew to a close and we on Earth completed one of our strangest orbits around the sun, news broke that astronomers had picked up a mysterious signal from another star. Astronomers could tell, from the specific properties of the beam of radio waves, that it wasn’t made by an act of nature, such as a cosmic explosion. The signal coming from the star’s direct...

Radio signal is the best possible evidence for extraterrestrial life The Breakthrough Listen team has been scanning skies for technosignatures – indicators of technology developed by advanced alien civilizations. Prior to their discovery, the team’s effort had been fruitless, as many promising detections turned out to be man-made. But one signal, labeled Breakthrough Listen Candidate 1 (BLC1), stood out among the several radio signals the researchers picked up while examining data taken...

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 Representative image: Reuters 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...

Proxima Centauri and the space signal: Was that a dropped call from ET? 1 Jan, 2021 01:19 AM 8 minutes to read 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...

7-MIN READ Was That a Dropped Call From Aliens? Unexplained Radio Beam from Star Has Excited Scientists A view of the surface of the planet Proxima b orbiting the red dwarf star Proxima Centauri, the closest star to our Solar System, is seen in an undated artists impression released by the European Southern Observatory August 24, 2016. (Reuters) Proxima Centauri is an inviting prospect for “out yonder.” FOLLOW US ON: Nobody believes it was ET phoning, but radio astronomers admit they do not...

News18 Evening Digest: Oxford-AstraZeneca Shot Set to Get Approval and Other Top Stories FOLLOW US ON: India on Friday took a step closer to licensing a vaccine against Covid-19 as an expert panel appointed by the government recommended that the apex drug regulator grant emergency use authorisation to the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine. The approval by the Subject Expert Committee of the Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO) paves the way for mass immunisation with the vaccine to begi...

Was That a Dropped Call From ET? A spooky radio signal showed up after a radio telescope was aimed at the next star over from our sun. Proxima Centauri, the closest known star to our own sun, is found in the constellation Centaurus and is not visible to the naked eye. The mysterious signal came from its direction.Credit...ESA/Hubble & NASA Published Dec. 31, 2020Updated Jan. 3, 2021 Nobody believes it was ET phoning, but radio astronomers admit they don’t have an explanation yet for a beam of...

The signal has the characteristics of being artificial, so then the question becomes “is it ours?” Many potential candidate signals are found, but the vast majority are soon found to be explained by terrestrial sources, satellites in space, errors, etc. As Jason Wright at Penn State University told Scientific American: If you see such a signal and it’s not coming from the surface of Earth, you know you have detected extraterrestrial technology. Unfortunately, humans have launched a lot o...