The truth is out there , they say , but we have n’t follow closely to find it yet .
The Breakthrough Listenproject has searched the closest 1,327 superstar in our Galax urceolata for jot of intelligent sprightliness and in advance civilizations . So far , it sounds mighty subdued out there . The projection is yet to come across any signals that suggest our cosmic neighborhood is home to any advanced civilization other than our own . Still , the team is not losing hope .
“ We scoured thousands of hr of observations of nearby principal , across billions of frequency channels . We found no grounds of contrived signals from beyond Earth , but this does n’t mean there is n’t levelheaded life out there : we may just not have looked in the veracious position yet , or peer deep enough to observe faint signals , ” Dr Danny C Price , a radio uranologist who lead the Breakthrough Listen project , said in astatement .
The extensive data was gathered using two of the world ’s most powerful ground scope , the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia and the Parkes Telescope in New South Wales , Australia . They sifted through zillion of receiving set channels , look for strange sign – or so - send for " technosignatures " – that might have been raise by engineering science built by civilizations beyond Earth . Unfortunately , as anticipated , they only notice the " noisy pig " of radio signals pump out from our own human technology , such as smartphones , televisions , and the like .
The on-going project has recently published their data in two top astrophysics journal – usable toread hereon pre - print servers . While collecting entropy on the surrounding 160 light - years of Earth , the project has amassed an eye - lacrimation 1 petabyte ( or 1 million G ) of data point – the largest datum set ever in public unloosen in the history of searching for extraterrestrial being .
“ While we have been gain modest subsets of data public before in varying forms and contexts , ” added Matt Lebofsky , Berkeley ’s SETI Research Center ’s trail system administrator , “ we are excited and proud to offer this first cohesive aggregation along with an instruction manual , so everybody can dig up in and help us hunt . "
launch in 2015 , the Breakthrough Listen undertaking was funded by Yuri Milner , Russia ’s answer to Peter Thiel , who founded the stupendous Russian net company " Mail.ru Group " and an investor in Facebook , Twitter , Airbnb , Whatsapp , and numerous other openhanded names in tech . Stayed tune up because there ’s enough more on its means .
Lebofsky added : " We ’re just getting started – there ’s much more to come ! "
