Observatories around the world team up in search for extraterrestrial life
NOV 08, 2010
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.024811
Washington Post : The scientific search for extraterrestrial intelligence went global this past weekend as observatories in 13 nations on 5 continents trained their telescopes on several promising star systems in a one-day joint effort, writes the Washington Post‘s Marc Kaufman. The international star-viewing extravaganza, the first of its kind, comes at a time of fast-paced discovery in the science of exoplanets, bodies that orbit suns beyond our solar system. The telescopes will be trained in a coordinated way on a number of star systems. “This is a real coming of age for exoplanets and for SETI,” said Frank Drake, who made the world’s first such observations at the Green Bank radio telescope in West Virginia 50 years ago and remains active in the field.
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