We’ve Been Listening for Ten Years. Here’s What We Heard

A study has listened to 70,000 stars and planetary systems for signs of life! (Credit : ESO/Y. Beletsky)

For ten years, astronomers at UCLA have been pointing one of the world’s most powerful radio telescopes at the stars and listening. Not for pulsars or gas clouds, or the hiss of the cosmic microwave background, but for something far more extraordinary. A signal from another civilisation. The result of a decade’s work, 70,000 stars, and 100 million candidate signals is now in and every single one of them was us! But far from being a disappointment, the findings are among the most rigorous and revealing in the history of the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.

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