The Quest For Intelligent Life Around The Weird Star Persists

The weird star known as Tabby's star or also referred to as KIC 8462852 has been a subject of looking for intelligent life in the past years. This continues as the Breakthrough Listen project is taking up again a search for a possibility of signals from intelligent extraterrestrial life using the Green Bank radio telescope.

The SETI project will aim one of the world's most powerful radio telescopes at Tabby's Star >> https://t.co/x0A8HEeK9L

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Andrew Siemion, the director of the Berkeley SETI Research center and co-director of Breakthrough Listen explained that the Breakthrough Listen program has the most powerful SETI equipment on the planet. It also has the access to the largest telescopes on the planet. He further explained that they look at with greater sensitivity and for a wider range of signal types than any other experiment in the world.

Phys.org reports that Breakthrough Listen is not the only one to search life around this weird star. Siemion said that everyone, every SETI program telescope and every astronomer that has a type of telescope in any wavelength can see the weird star. He added that it has been looked at with Hubble, Keck and at in the infrared and radio high energy and every possible thing you can imagine. On the other hand, nothing has been found.

Meanwhile, the search for intelligent life continues. The astronomers from UC Berkley are going to use the Green bank radio telescope in West Virginia to identify signals from the Tabby star. Director Siemion said that the Green Bank Telescope is the biggest steerable radio telescope on the planet. It is the largest and most sensitive telescope that can look at Tabby's star given its position in the sky.

Tabby's star is in the constellation Cygnus and approximately 454 parsecs or 1,480 ly from the Earth. It was observed that the star has unusual light fluctuations as seen through the Kepler Space Telescope. Many hypotheses have been made explaining the star's mysterious brightness. Some say that changes in brightness could be signals from intelligent life. On the other hand, no evidence found on any radio signals from the weird star.