It’s never aliens, until it is. Today, news leaked in the British newspaper The Guardian of a mysterious signal coming from the closest star to our own, Proxima Centauri, a star too dim to see from Earth with the naked eye that is nevertheless a cosmic stone’s throw away at just 4.2 light-years.
Most curiously, it occupies a very narrow band of the radio spectrum: 982 megahertz, specifically, which is a region typically bereft of transmissions from human-made satellites and spacecraft. “We don’t know of any natural way to compress electromagnetic energy into a single bin in frequency” such as this one, Siemion says. Perhaps, he says, some as-yet-unknown exotic quirk of plasma physics could be a natural explanation for the tantalizingly concentrated radio waves.
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Things have been getting a little squirrely lately. If you, like I, have been wondering what in the wide wide world of sports is-a goin' on here, the answer might be, well, other-worldly.
In a double-bylined story posted last week on the NBC News website, we were told that aliens may be toying with us — and you'll be shocked (or not) as to who knows.
"A former Israeli space security chief has sent eyebrows shooting heavenward by saying that earthlings have been in contact with extraterrestrials from a 'galactic federation,'" the story starts.
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Arecibo Observatory: another great lost in 2020
The 305-metre radio telescope at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico survived decades of hurricanes, including Hurricane Maria in 2017, and earthquakes, including unusually strong ones in early January 2020. It also survived attempts by its owner, the US National Science Foundation, to reduce its funding. But in the early morning of 1 December 2020, its 900-tonne suspended instrument platform collapsed, destroying the 57-year-old telescope.
Arecibo contributed to many significant discoveries, including observations of pulsars that captured a Nobel prize, and the first confirmed exoplanets. Closer to home, the observatory's radar equipment emitted radio signals to identify the shape, spin and speed of potentially hazardous asteroids for NASA. The telescope also monitored dwarf stars, planets in our Solar System and disturbances in Earth's atmosphere.
Quite a lot has been going on:
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Black soil samples are seen inside a capsule that the spacecraft Hayabusa 2 brought back from a distant asteroid. (Provided by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency)
Among the science fiction novels about virulent extraterrestrial pathogens, "The Andromeda Strain" by American author Michael Crichton (1942-2008) is arguably a classic par excellence.
A military satellite crashes in a small rustic town in Arizona, practically decimating the entire population with a deadly microorganism the spacecraft picked up in outer space.
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Donald Trump recently tweeted “I won the election in a landslide, but remember, I only think in terms of legal votes, not all of the fake voters and fraud that miraculously came from everywhere. What a disgrace!”
With the Electoral College confirming Biden’s victory, some Republican leaders are finally accepting the obvious, but over 50 million Americans still apparently agree with Trump. They look a lot like rational people, but no one will be able to convince them that Joe Biden had a clear victory with no evidence of fraud, missing ballots, or extraterrestrial influence.
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Happening on Twitter
There is almost certainly an ordinary, terrestrial explanation—but even a remote hint of life beyond Earth has peop… https://t.co/Qh3Raos2Yj NatGeo (from Global) Sun Dec 20 03:00:06 +0000 2020
Definitely interesting. It is narrowband so seems to be a real signal. Most likely terrestrial in origin but until… https://t.co/ehnMsRAYBw DrFunkySpoon (from Biosphere One) Sat Dec 19 22:38:19 +0000 2020
So 2020 has a final surprise for us: aliens from Alpha Centauri? https://t.co/bQhyTQPOGm wrmead (from Washington, DC) Sun Dec 20 04:31:45 +0000 2020
Has an alien radio signal been detected from the star closest to our sun? Astronomers at the Breakthrough Listen pr… https://t.co/w2QmFTVZAC Jerusalem_Post (from Israel) Sun Dec 20 16:44:24 +0000 2020
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