Astronomers Catalog 1,000 Worlds That Can “See” Earth – and Are… – AlKhaleej Today

Two astronomers have rethought the search for extraterrestrial intelligence by creating a star map of exoplanets that have a direct line of sight on our planet when it crosses in front of our sun. Monitoring planets on their way between an observer and their star is one of the main ways we Earthlings discover potentially viable exoplanets for colonization. So we think civilizations as advanced would use the same method to find us. Transits provide important information about the composition and…

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