People have been wondering if there are other life forms out in the universe. The search for life goes on in other planets, hoping to find evidence of other life forms. There might be alien life proof coming, as a giant radio telescope may find it soon.
The project to find alien life has been called Breakthrough Listen. This has been a 10-year project to find intelligent life out in the universe. The project was started in 2015 by Yuri Milner and astrophysicist Stephen Hawking. The first observation being done by Breakthrough Listen has been announced recently.
Breakthrough Listen has announced that the Parkes Radio Telescope in New South Wales, Australia would be used to search intelligent life outside our planet. The Parkes Radio Telescope would be joined the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia and the Automated Planet Finder at the Lick Observatory in California. Working at Parkes is a team of scientists from University of California Berkeley's SETI Research Center.
The Parkes Radio Telescope would be pointed at the Southern Hemisphere, where there are many potential targets. That would include the center of the Milky Way and other galaxies nearby. Pete Worden, Chairman of Breakthrough Prize Foundation and Executive Director of the Breakthrough Initiatives, said the Parkes Radio Telescope has much history and that Breakthrough Listen would be working with Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (SCIRO).
Along with the Parkes Radio Telescope, Breakthrough Listen would also be using the FAST telescope, according to Phys Org. Together they will coordinate in searching for intelligent life in the universe. The two would exchange and share plans, methods and data for a more thorough search.
The first target for the Parkes Radio Telescope would be the exoplanet at Proxima Centauri. Proxima b is said to be within the habitable zone of a star system where life would be possible. This makes the planet to be an ideal target for possible intelligent life, as Astro Watch reports. A sister program of Breakthrough Listen, Breakthrough Starshot, is also looking at Proxima b.
Breakthrough Listen is said to be the most comprehensive program to date for any search for intelligent life. It just might find alien life proof, and the giant radio telescope may find it soon. A report earlier said that a UFO sighting in Hawaii has caused controversies.
