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SETI Search Of Kepler Planets Receives First Candidate Signals

January 8, 2012
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The image above shows the radio signal detected by the 100-meter Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia while scanning the exoplanetary candidate KOI 817 discovered by the Kepler mission. This is the kind of signal SETI scientists would expect to find if an alien civilization is transmitting.

In an effort to detect the radio emissions from a hypothetical extraterrestrial intelligence, it helps to know where to look. So, using data from the Kepler space telescope, astronomers are becoming more focused on “listening” for radio signals coming from stars known to have planets orbiting them. And it seems the first “candidate” signals have been detected! “We’ve started searching our Kepler SETI observations and our analyses have generated some of our first candidate signals, which areundoubtedly examples of terrestrial radio frequency interference (RFI),” scientists of the University of California, Berkeley announced on Friday.The detection of these artificial signal...

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SETI Searchs Kepler Telescopes Top Earth-Like Planet Discoveries

September 29, 2011
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The Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia, the largest steerable radio telescope in the world, is observing 86 planetary systems that may contain Earth-like planets in hopes of detecting signals from intelligent civilizations.

Astronomers at the University of California, Berkeley, are aiming a radio telescope at the most Earth-like worlds discovered by NASA’s Kepler space telescope. Kepler has recently identified 1,235 possible planets around stars in our galaxy. The search began on Saturday, May 8, when the Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope – the largest steerable radio telescope in the world – dedicated an hour to eight stars with possible planets. Once UC Berkeley astronomers acquire 24 hours of data on a total of 86 Earth-like planets, they’ll initiate a coarse analysis and then, in about two months, ask an estimated...

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US Astronomers Launch New Search For Alien Life On 86 Planets

May 15, 2011
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86 possible Earth-like planets of 1,235 possible planets in the Kepler mission star field will be scanned.

The powerful Green Bank Telescope at the very cutting edge of radio astronomy technology in rural West Virginia has begun listening for signs of alien life on 86 possible Earth-like planets. Selected from a list of 1,235 possible planets in the Kepler mission star field shown above — the effort will gather 24 hours of data on each one. The mission is part of the SETI project, which stands for Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence, launched in the mid 1980s. The 17 million pound (7.7 million kilogram) telescope became operational in 2000 and is a project of the NSF’s...

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SETI opens up its data to ‘citizen scientists’

January 31, 2011
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You are officially invited to join the search for extraterrestrial life. And no, that doesn’t mean you should head to Kansas and lie in a cornfield awaiting the mothership to scoop you up. All you have to do is log on to SETIQuest.org, which went live on Wednesday. The site’s launch was announced at the TED 2010 conference currently underway in Long Beach, California. SETIQuest is the product of astronomer Jill Tarter‘s TED Prize wish. After being awarded the TED Prize last year, Tarter was given the opportunity to make a single wish before an auditorium full of the...

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