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  • February 2008
    • Sky's the Limit in Powerful New Searches for Alien Life

      Sky's the Limit in Powerful New Searches for Alien Life

      Powerful new instruments will help scientists in their search for extra-terrestrial life, the Christian Science Monitor writes. New telescopes will make it possible for the SETI Institute to scan millions of star systems for alien radio signals. Only a thousand have been analyzed in detail so far, but the institute hopes to get more new data in the next two years than it has collected in the last half-century.  More »

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      space   astronomy   extraterrestrial life   aliens   exoplanet   radio telescope   telescopes   SETI

  • October 2007
    • Orbiting Telescope Will Retire

      Orbiting Telescope Will Retire

      An orbiting telescope whose findings were the basis of over 1,200 research papers will be shut down tomorrow, after an unexpectedly productive eight-year run, The Discovery Channel reports. The Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE) detected a bubble of gas surrounding the Milky Way, located remains of exploded stars, and measured elements of the Big Bang. More »

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      NASA   telescopes

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