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Search for alien signals expands to 20,000 star systems
Wednesday, March 30, 2016 17:33
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Miami (AFP) – The search for radio signals from alien worlds is expanding to 20,000 star systems that were previously considered poor targets for intelligent extraterrestrial life, US researchers said Wednesday.
New scientific data has led the SETI Institute to believe systems orbiting red dwarfs — dim, long-lived stars that are on average billions of years older than our sun — are worth investigating.
“This may be one instance in which older is better,” said astronomer Seth Shostak of California-based SETI, a private, non-profit organization which stands for Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence.
“Older solar systems have had more time to produce intelligent species.” …. http://news.yahoo.com
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