Extraterrestrial

SETI is investigating 'interesting' signal

By T.K. Randall
August 30, 2016

Image: OVRO 40 Meter Radio Telescope
Credit: Salvor Hardin / CC BY-SA 4.0 (adapted) First detected over a year ago, the anomalous signal, which is thought to originate 94 light years away in a solar system known as HD 164595, wasn't even reported at all until relatively recently.

Now Seth Shostak of the SETI Institute ( Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence ) has revealed that efforts are underway to investigate the signal for signs that it might have come from aliens.HD 164595 itself certainly doesn't seem like a particularly promising place to look, especially considering that its one and only known planet is a large and inhospitable Neptune-like world.

Nonetheless, it remains possible that there may be other, smaller planets orbiting the star.

Whether the signal really is coming from intelligent extraterrestrials however remains to be seen.

Source: NPR.org

Tags: SETI, Signal