Scientists have announced the start of the scale in the history of the project to search for extraterrestrial intelligent life. It was headed by the famous astrophysicist Stephen Hawking and finance Russian businessman Yuri Milner.
The initiators of the project, known as
Breakthrough
Initiatives («Breakthrough Initiative"), talked about it on
press conference held at the Royal Society.
In addition to Hawking, the program will involve astronomers world level, such
as Lord Martin Rees and Geoffrey Marcy. The project was made possible by
businessman and philanthropist Yuri Milner, co-owner of Mail.ru, which also
He is the founder of the world's largest scientific prize
Breakthrough Prize.
Milner donated to the "breakthrough initiatives" $ 100 million.
The program will consist of two parts. The first of these is called
Breakthrough Listen («breakthrough listening"). In the framework of the scientists
analyze with the help of ground-based radio telescopes signals that emanate from
Planets near 1000 000 closest stars to Earth.
Experts plan to cover the entire Milky Way and next to the
it 100 galaxies. The equipment, which is planned to involve in
"Breakthrough initiatives", will be 50 times more sensitive than the telescopes
previously used in the search for extraterrestrial life. Scientists will study about
5 times wider range radio than before, and analyze the
it 100 times faster.
According to the astronomers, if there's one in 1,000 of our nearest star
there is a civilization, then the project will be able to detect even her weaknesses
radio, power similar to aircraft radar signals.
In the second part of the project called Breakthrough Message («Breakthrough
message "), astronomers try to send a radio signal to our prospective
brothers on reason. It is planned that there will be competition for the most intuitive
for aliens signal - the winner will receive one million dollars. In total,
the implementation of "breakthrough initiatives" will take 10 years.
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