Search For Alien Life Targets 86 Possible Earth Like Planets

SETI is suffering from budget problems. One solution is to narrow the search to Earth-like planets.

(PHYSORG)- A MASSIVE RADIO TELESCOPE IN RURAL WEST VIRGINIA HAS BEGUN LISTENING FOR SIGNS OF ALIEN LIFE ON 86 POSSIBLE EARTH-LIKE PLANETS, US ASTRONOMERS SAID FRIDAY.

The giant dish began this week pointing toward each of the 86 planets -- culled from a list of 1,235 possible planets identified by NASA's Kepler space telescope -- and will gather 24 hours of data on each one.

"It's not absolutely certain that all of these stars have habitable planetary systems, but they're very good places to look for ET," said University of California at Berkeley graduate student Andrew Siemion.

The mission is part of the SETI project, which stands for Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence, launched in the mid 1980s.

Origin: ufoproofs.blogspot.com