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Researchers from Penn State University are studying a signal detected by a radio telescope identified at Proxima Centauri. He is a small neighbor star of the Milky Way and is part of the Alpha Centauri. The radio signal was first erected in April 2019. In interaction with The New York Times, Sofia Sheikh, a graduate of Penn State, and lead author of the study, said it is a technological signal, but the question is whether it is tech Earth or elsewhere.
Sheikh is part of a $ 100 million effort funded by one billion Russian investor Yuri Milner to find foreign radio waves.
The sixty-four meter radio telescope at the Parkes Observatory in Australia was used to detect potential signals from Proxima Centauri.
The closest star system to Earth is the famous Alpha Centauri group. Located in the constellation Centaurus (The Centaur), at a speed of 4.3 light-years, this system is made up of the binary created by the stars Alpha Centauri A and Alpha Centauri B, as well as the red dwarf Alpha Centauri C, also known as Proxima Centauri. Image credit: ESA / Hubble & NASA
He told the New York Times that token only seems to buy in their data when they look at the Proxima Centauri side. Andrew Siemion of the Berkeley SETI Research Center and researcher for Breakthrough Listen said his instincts tell him the signal will have an anthropogenic origin.
Proxima Centauri, a red star surrounded by two known planets, is one of them in the ‘arable zone’ that could support Earth-like conditions.
In an interaction with Scientific American, Penn State University professor Jason Wright said that if one sees such a signal and it does not come from the surface of the Earth, one knows that they are on a technology outside the Earth. to find a country.
Talking to Scientific America, Sheikh reiterated that the most interesting signal they found in the Breakthrough Listen project is because they have not jumped a signal through it so often on their previous filters.