An international team of scientists from the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) is investigating mysterious signal spikes emitting from a 6.3-billion-year-old star in the constellation Hercules—95 light years away from Earth. The implications are extraordinary and point to the possibility of a civilization far more advanced than our own.
The unusual signal was originally detected on May 15, 2015, by the Russian Academy of Science-operated RATAN-600 radio telescope in Zelenchukskaya, Russia, but was kept secret from the international community. Interstellar space reporter Paul Gilster broke the story after the researchers quietly circulated a paper announcing the detection of “a strong signal in the direction of HD164595.”
The mysterious star’s designation is HD164595, and it’s considered to be sun-like in nature with a nearly identical metallic composition to our own star. So far, a single Neptune-like (but warmer) planet has been discovered in its orbit—HD 164595 b. But as Gilster explained, “There could, of course, be other planets still undetected in this system.”
Decorated Italian SETI researcher and mathematician Claudio Maccone along with Russia’s Nikolai Bursov of the Special Astrophysical Observatory are the principal scientists working on the apparent discovery. They claim that “permanent monitoring of this target is needed.”
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“The signal is provocative enough that the RATAN-600 researchers are calling for permanent monitoring of this target,” said Gilster. And that’s exactly what is transpiring. As of last night, the SETI institute is diverting its Allen Telescope Array in northern California to investigate while their counterparts at METI International (Messaging Extraterrestrial Intelligence) will use Panama’s Boquete Optical Observatory.
xer0s wrote:They forget to mention that it could also be radio interference from earth or maybe a microlensing event caused by the star's gravitational field.
I want to believe! But let's not start sucking each other's dicks just yet...
also the story in the OP link is worded identically to one that appeared elsewhere, except they corrected "65 billion year old" to "6.3 billion year old"
also the story in the OP link is worded identically to one that appeared elsewhere, except they corrected "65 billion year old" to "6.3 billion year old"
Clickbait? I disagree. Maybe for that website. But I think the story is important, and could possibly become huge (if only a small chance). It's something to watch for sure...
Grow up idiot... The signal...if anything was a natural occurrence... No advanced civilization is gonna waste that much energy pointing a signal towards us mouth breathers... And there are no Dyson spheres.. get a life looser...
I looked over the presentation. I was unimpressed. In one out of 39 scans that passed over star showed a signal at about 4.5 times the mean noise power with a profile somewhat like the beam profile. Of course SETI@home has seen millions of potential signals with similar characteristics, but it takes more than that to make a good candidate. Multiple detections are a minimum criterion.
Because the receivers used were making broad band measurements, there's really nothing about this "signal" that would distinguish it from a natural radio transient (stellar flare, active galactic nucleus, microlensing of a background source, etc.) There's also nothing that could distinguish it from a satellite passing through the telescope field of view. All in all, it's relatively uninteresting from a SETI standpoint.
But, of course, it's been announced to the media. Reporters won't have the background to know it's not interesting. Because the media has it, and since this business runs on media, [other astronomers] will look at it. … And we'll all find nothing. It's not our first time at this rodeo, so we know how it works.
[quote="YourGrandpa"]I'm satisfied with voicing my opinion and moving on.[/quote]
also the story in the OP link is worded identically to one that appeared elsewhere, except they corrected "65 billion year old" to "6.3 billion year old"
Clickbait? I disagree. Maybe for that website. But I think the story is important, and could possibly become huge (if only a small chance). It's something to watch for sure...
scared? wrote:Grow up idiot... The signal...if anything was a natural occurrence... No advanced civilization is gonna waste that much energy pointing a signal towards us mouth breathers... And there are no Dyson spheres.. get a life looser...
we're unravelling strands, well and good.
new darkmatter.
higgsboson
we're catching drops in a bucket.
we need contact.
BUT, my data carrier stills thinks i use the stupid phone so I'm still paying for phone, not data.
Aliens dont want to fool with this nonsense.
Plus, our so called, civilized countries, have animals-demanding human status.
Fuck that time to goto war on these ghetto monkeys. I could care less about islam. And if you cared too you wouldnt care. This country is full of filthy scrubs and cowards.
