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Where are they? Searching for laser beams from ET

2 October 2018 Astronomy Now

A mostly student-run project is studying the Andromeda Galaxy, taking repeated before-and-after photos with relatively small telescopes in hopes of detecting any civilizations using powerful lasers to signal their presence.

Breakthrough Listen searches new-found nearby planet Proxima b for signs of ET

8 November 2016 Astronomy Now

Breakthrough Listen, the 10-year, $100-million astronomical search for intelligent life beyond Earth launched in 2015 by Internet entrepreneur Yuri Milner and Stephen Hawking, has just announced its first observations of newly-discovered Earth-size planet Proxima b orbiting the nearest star to the Sun using the Parkes Radio Telescope in New South Wales, Australia.