Post by gato on Dec 31, 2020 7:03:26 GMT -5
“The signal appears to only show up in our data when we’re looking in the direction of Proxima Centauri, which is exciting.”
Since most natural causes for outer space radio phenomenon occur on a wide range of frequencies, scientists sit up and take notice when a narrow band radio wave gets broadcast "out there." This one, from Proxima, with a frequency of 982.02 MHz, was picked up by the Parkes Observatory in Australia.
Those running the SETI program say they've been disappointed before, and earthlings shouldn't get their hopes up, even though Proxima, 4.2 lightyears from Earth, has a rocky planet in the "Goldilocks Zone."
Said Turner Ferris of the SETI site in Northbanks, Wyoming, "the last time we hit the red alert button, it turned out that Frank over there, had left the radio on in his pickup truck, and we were getting feedback. We should have known there couldn't be two Dolly Parton's in the universe."
A group of Stanford graduate students, one of whom looks a lot like Jodie Foster, claims to have translated a burst of information carried in the narrow band broadcast:
"My parents are leaving for Alpha Omega tonight. Get Beepzlehi**'s uncle to stop sitting on his eye stalks and bring a keg to the party."
www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2020/12/alien-hunters-detect-mysterious-radio-signal-from-nearby-star/
Since most natural causes for outer space radio phenomenon occur on a wide range of frequencies, scientists sit up and take notice when a narrow band radio wave gets broadcast "out there." This one, from Proxima, with a frequency of 982.02 MHz, was picked up by the Parkes Observatory in Australia.
Those running the SETI program say they've been disappointed before, and earthlings shouldn't get their hopes up, even though Proxima, 4.2 lightyears from Earth, has a rocky planet in the "Goldilocks Zone."
Said Turner Ferris of the SETI site in Northbanks, Wyoming, "the last time we hit the red alert button, it turned out that Frank over there, had left the radio on in his pickup truck, and we were getting feedback. We should have known there couldn't be two Dolly Parton's in the universe."
A group of Stanford graduate students, one of whom looks a lot like Jodie Foster, claims to have translated a burst of information carried in the narrow band broadcast:
"My parents are leaving for Alpha Omega tonight. Get Beepzlehi**'s uncle to stop sitting on his eye stalks and bring a keg to the party."
www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2020/12/alien-hunters-detect-mysterious-radio-signal-from-nearby-star/