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Are aliens trying to communicate via a ‘repeating fast radio burst’ from outer space? SCIENCE AND SOCIETY investigate.
CHIME telescope in Canada which was used to detect the signals
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THE media was abuzz recently after news broke that an international collaboration using a large radio telescope (four gigantic cylinders in rural British Columbia, Canada) had found evidence of a “repeating fast radio burst (FRB) source.”
In other words, an extremely powerful pulse of radiation from a fixed place in the night sky: not just once, but repeatedly.
The short bursts of powerful radiation lasted just a few milliseconds. Such bursts have been seen before, but only as one-off events. The bursts repeated, but not at regular intervals, and this repetition has led some to wonder: could these be alien signals?
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