WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Scientists have completed the broadest search to date for extraterrestrial civilizations by scanning roughly 10.3 million stars using a radio telescope in Australia, but have found nothing - not yet, at least.
Using the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) telescope in the outback of Western Australia, they searched for low-frequency radio emissions - frequencies similar to FM radio - from stars in the constellation of Vela. The findings were published this week in Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia.
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A scan of 10.3 million stars turns up no sign of aliens - yet https://t.co/BLDAUHrAbJ https://t.co/657tKa0hum Reuters (from Around the world) Thu Sep 10 02:00:35 +0000 2020
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