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In the 1997 movie Contact a scientist, played by actress Jodie Foster, detects a radio signal — the first communication from an extraterrestrial civilisation. That…
In the 1997 movie Contact a scientist, played by actress Jodie Foster, detects a radio signal — the first communication from an extraterrestrial civilisation.
That story, penned by Carl Sagan and his wife Ann Druyan, is fiction of course. But the search for such a signal is not such a crazy story.
Real scientists look to the sky, using powerful radio telescopes, hoping to hear even a faint whisper of a radio signal from of one our celestial neighbours.
Hubble’s 2013 shot of Proxima Centauri, our…
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