Astronomers with Germany’s Max Planck Institute of Extraterrestrial Physics has discovered a strange interstellar “tunnel” of hot gases that stretches out for hundreds of light years from our region of space, a relatively empty pocket of space that the Sun is currently travelling through, toward the constellation Centaurus. Estimated toread more
The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence program is currently investigating a high-energy signal burst that originated from a star 95 light years away, in the constellation Hercules. SETI senior astronomer Seth Shostak cautions that this is unlikely to be an artificial signal, as there are a number of natural phenomena that could also have produced the signal.
The signal was recorded by Russian astronomers at the RATAN-600 radio telescope in Zelenchukskaya. Unfortunately, the signal was recorded on May 15, 2015, nearly a year and a half ago, a delay that severely hampers verification of the other signal from other telescopes. Nonetheless, SETI will be listening to the star on the off chance that there might be a repeat of the signal.
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