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SETI Team Investigating Mysterious Signal from Star 94 Light-Years Away

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SETI Team Investigating Mysterious Signal from Star 94 Light-Years Away

SETI Team Investigating Mysterious Signal from Star 94 Light-Years Away
The SETI Institute is using the Allen Telescope Array in Northern California in an attempt to confirm an intriguing signal coming from the star HD 164595.

A powerful signal has been spotted coming from the vicinity of a sunlike star, and now astronomers are trying to figure out what it means.

In May 2015, researchers using a radio telescope in Russia detected a candidate SETI (search for extraterrestrial intelligence) signal that seems to originate from HD 164595, a star system that lies about 94 light-years from Earth, the website Centauri Dreams reported over the weekend.

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Comet Leonard (C/2021 A1)

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Comet Leonard (C/2021 A1)
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M16, The Eagle Nebula

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M16, The Eagle Nebula