http://www.lexpress.fr/actualite/scienc ... 44258.htmlThese strange stars 234 signals they are aliens?
Scientists have picked up "very unusual messages" from deep space and are considering an intelligent origin. The Seti Institute calls for caution and recalls that "extraordinary statements deserve extraordinary proof".
What if aliens try to communicate with us? This is what Ermano F. Borra and Eric Trottier, two astronomers from Laval University in Quebec, would like to discover. The two researchers studied signals from 2,5 million stars. They discovered that 234 of them "send very unusual messages," which may bear the mark of alien intelligence.
"These signals correspond to the extraterrestrial signals that we predicted in a previous study," they said in their analysis published in the journal Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. And the fact that we detected them from a few stars which all have a spectral type comparable to that of our Sun, further strengthens the ET hypothesis "
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