Astronomers looking for bright cities in Kuiper Belt
(NEWSER) - If there were civilizations on distant planets, how would we know? Sure, we could turn some of our massive telescopes toward those planets, but we're still at least "two or three generations of telescope away" from being able to detect the light of a large city in another solar system, Ed Turner tells Time . But in the meantime, he and fellow astrophysicist Avi Loeb came up with a novel solution for looking a bit closer to home in the Kuiper Belt, which surrounds our own solar system. More»
