Berkeley SETI turns Australian telescope on nearest exoplanet to Earth
Monday, November 7, 2016 - 20:32
in Astronomy & Space
Breakthrough Listen, the UC Berkeley-led 10-year, $100 million search for intelligent life beyond Earth, inaugurated its observations with the Parkes Radio Telescope in Australia by homing in on our nearest extrasolar planet, Proxima b, the main destination for a sister project called Breakthrough Starshot. Breakthrough Listen, launched in 2015 by internet entrepreneur Yuri Milner and […]