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A mysterious radio signal from our nearest stellar neighbour, Proxima Centauri, is being carefully investigated by a team of alien-hunting astronomers.
Researchers from the Breakthrough Listen Project – a £70m initiative to find alien life through radio telescopes – have been studying the radio waves since April 2019.
Proxima Centauri is 4.2 light years from Earth and has two confirmed planets, a Jupiter-like gas giant and a rocky world called Proxima b in the habitable zone.
The signal was spotted by the Parkes radio telescope in Australia in April or May 2020, according to a report in The Guardian, and, unlike previous radio bursts hasn t been attributed to any Earth-based or near-Earth human-created source.
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It is common for astronomers to pick up strange radio blasts from outer space, but the majority have so far been explained in scientific terms – human interference from Earth or natural cataclysms. However, nothing of this kind has yet been said about one of the latest narrow beams, intercepted in spring 2019.
Astronomers are now looking into a tantalising radio wave emission that is understood to have come from the vicinity of Proxima Centauri, a red dwarf star that is only 4.2 light years from the Sun, and could potentially offer a long-sought answer to the extra-terrestrial life question. A paper, expected to arrive soon, will detail a beam named BLC1, in a nod to Breakthrough Listen – a project tasked with looking for traces or other evidence of life in s
Strange radio signal fired from nearby star is ‘serious candidate’ for proof of alien life, scientists say
Charlotte Edwards, Digital Technology and Science Reporter
18 Dec 2020, 15:47
Updated: 18 Dec 2020, 16:50
ALIEN hunting astronomers are investigating a strange radio wave emission that seems to have come from a nearby star.
Proxima Centauri is our Solar System s closest star and is located just over 4 light years away.
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An artist s impression of red dwarf star Proxima Centauri and a planet that orbits itCredit: Handout - Getty
With today s current technology it would still take at least 6,300 years to get there, according to MIT estimates.
The star appears to have produced a narrow beam of radio waves that was then picked up by the Parkes telescope in Australia.