Scientists involved in a project in search of alien life are now investigating a mysterious radio wave signal that appears Proxima Centauri, the closest star to the Sun.
The Guardian The discovery report on Friday states that in April and May last year, emissions were taken during the Hours of Observations by the Parks Telescope in Australia.
Scientists working on a breakthrough leasing project have been investigating emissions since its discovery, although the source is still unclear. However, the Guardian reports that scientists have found that the change in the frequency of the beam is consistent with the movement of a planet.
A person from the astronomy community who spoke on condition of anonymity because the work is ongoing told The Guardian that the beam that came from the direction of Proxima Centauri did not reappear after initial observation.
The source told the newspaper that the latest beam is the first serious candidate after “Wow! Signal, ” A radio signal was taken in 1977 by the Big Ear Radio Observatory in Ohio.
Launched in 2015 by Silicon Valley-based science and technology investor Yuri Milner, Breakthrough Lron surveys 1 million stars close to Earth and “listens to messages from 100 of our nearest galaxies” to find evidence of extraterrestrial culture. To Project website.
At the launch of the project in 2015 at the Royal Society of London, Stephen Hawking, a physicist and cosmologist, described the research as “crucially important”.
A.L.S. Hawking, who died in 2018 after decades of fighting together, said: “Mankind needs a deeper place to explore, to learn, to learn. We also become sociable creatures. It is important to know whether we are alone in the dark or not.”
Proxima Centauri is located 2.6 light years from Earth, with at least two planets orbiting it. According to The Guardian, one is thought to be a gas giant, while the other is a rocky planet 17 percent larger than Earth, known as “Proxima B”.
The planet is located in the “habitable zone” of Proxima Centauri, i.e. it is at the temperature level that water will flow, which is a long-standing speculation about whether life exists on the planet.
However, Published a report A team of Australian researchers in the Astrophysical Journal last week Indicated that the surrounding planets Proxima Centauri is exposed to potentially dangerous radiation Stellar flares and plasma ejection.
“Earth has a very powerful planetary magnetic field that protects us from these intense explosions of solar plasma. But Proxima Centauri is a nice, tiny red-dwarf star, which means that this habitable field is very close to the star; “Mercury is for our sun,” said Andrew Zick, lead author, in a news statement.
“What our research shows is that these make the planets very sensitive to dangerous ionizing radiation that can effectively sterilize the planets,” he added.
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