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Tag: “Alpha Centauri”

The Parkes 64m Radio Telescope in Australia (Binarysequence/Wikimedia Commons)

Breakthrough Listen’s Search For ETI Gets Boost

May 15, 2018

The Breakthrough Listen initiative’s search for extra-terrestrial intelligent life just got a big boost thanks to hardware upgrades at Australia’s Parkes Radio Telescope. The upgraded equipment will help scientists conduct faster surveys of the sky and will provide an ability to scan the Milky Way’s disk and bulge in unparalleled detail. The Australian radio telescope […]

August 2016 Science Images

August 31, 2016

 

This wide-field view of the sky around the bright star Alpha Centauri was created from photographic images forming part of the Digitized Sky Survey 2. (European Southern Observatory)

20 Years to Alpha Centauri; NASA’s Expandable Habitat; Elements of an Apology

April 13, 2016

Proposed Spacecraft Will Take 20 Years to Reach Alpha Centauri Renowned physicist and cosmologist Stephen Hawking and Russian internet investor and physicist Yuri Milner recently announced an ambitious new project they hope will someday send thousands of tiny spacecraft to the stars to explore space and search for life in the universe. Called ‘Breakthrough Starshot,’ […]

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