Australian Telescope Joins Search for Alien Life
By Mike Wall
Breakthrough Listen has begun using the Parkes
radio telescope in Australia to scan the heavens, representatives of the
ambitious, decade-long project announced Monday (Nov. 7).
The Parkes
dish becomes the third telescope to be employed by Breakthrough Listen, joining
the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia and the Automated Planet Finder at
Lick Observatory in Northern California.
"The addition
of Parkes is an important milestone," billionaire entrepreneur Yuri
Milner, founder of the Breakthrough Initiatives, which include Breakthrough
Listen, said in a statement. "These major instruments are
the ears of planet Earth, and now they are listening for signs of other
civilizations." Read more >>
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