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Africa-Press – Sierra-Leone. <\/strong><\/span>Previously, the researchers had been confined to searching for signals deliberately sent out by aliens, says one project astronomer, but now they will be able to detect transmissions that are \u201cunintentionally\u201d as well as deliberately sent.<\/p>\n

Researchers from Breakthrough Listen have announced new technology they say will transform their search for intelligent life in space. The group, which is the world\u2019s largest scientific research program whose mission is to find alien civilizations, will debut their findings at the group’s annual conference which will be held in Oxford this week, The Guardian reported on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Steve Croft, an astronomer and project scientist with Breakthrough Listen said that technologies are currently being developed across the globe which will help \u201ctransform\u201d how the group looks for alien civilizations. These include the Square Kilometer Array which is made up of radio telescopes being built in South Africa and Australia as well as the Vera Rubin Observatory – the world\u2019s largest camera – being constructed in Chile.<\/p>\n

Both facilities may begin their observations in the next few years and will provide the group with their collected data, and artificial intelligence will then analyze the collected information, possibly helping the group to find evidence of intelligent life forms in space.<\/p>\n

\u201cUntil now, we have been restricted to looking for signals deliberately sent out by aliens to advertise their existence,\u201d said Croft. \u201cThe new techniques are going to be so sensitive that, for the first time, we will be able to detect unintentional transmissions as opposed to deliberate ones and will be able to spot alien airport radar, or powerful TV transmitters \u2013 things like that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Breakthrough Listen is a program that includes a survey of 1,000,000 closest stars to Earth and scans the center of Earth\u2019s galaxy – as well as the entire \u201cgalactic plane\u201d – to listen for messages from the 100 closest galaxies to Earth, the group said on their website prior to the news report. They add that the instruments they use are among the \u201cworld\u2019s most powerful\u201d and are \u201c50 times more sensitive than existing telescopes\u201d.<\/b><\/p>\n

The program, which said they would commit a total of $100,000,000 for their initiative over the course of a decade, added that their radio surveys \u201ccover 10 times more of the sky than previous programs\u201d and cover at least \u201c5 times more of the radio spectrum – and do it 100 times faster\u201d.<\/p>\n

Breakthrough Listen also said they are carrying out their broadest search yet for optical laser transmissions, and that these spectroscopic searches are 1,000 times more effective at finding laser signals than ordinary visible light surveys.<\/p>\n

In 2023, it was announced that University of Oxford would be the new international headquarters for Breakthrough Listen after previously being headquartered at the University of California, Berkeley. The switch will better allow the group to utilize the Square Kilometer Array whose large array of radio dishes and antennas spans two continents.<\/b><\/p>\n

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