Lost Interview With The 'Father of The Big Bang' to Has Kepler Discovered an Alien Megastructure?
Today’s stories include The most mysterious star in our galaxy to The hard truth about finding the Universe’s first stars, and much more.
AI algorithm pinpoints 8 radio signals that may have come from aliens--Is this the breakthrough the world has been waiting for from the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Institute? reports Chris Young for Interesting Engineering. "In a new paper published in the journal Nature Astronomy, Peter Ma describes how he trained a machine-learning algorithm on 480 hours of telescope data from 820 stars collected in 2016. The algorithm identified eight signals of interest that previous algorithms had failed to detect."
A Lost Interview With The 'Father of The Big Bang' Was Just Discovered. The interview Georges Lemaître, a Belgian cosmologist and Catholic priest, conducted in French, was originally aired in 1964, and the footage was thought to have gone missing. For those who don't speak Flemish or French, an English translation has also been provided in a preprint paper on arXiv.
Has the Kepler Space Telescope Discovered an Alien Megastructure? reports Ian O'Neill for Space.com. "In a chilling article written by Ross Andersen of The Atlantic (see below), at first glance, it seems we may be at this incredible juncture."
The Most Mysterious Star in Our Galaxy--Astronomers have spotted a strange mess of objects whirling around a distant star. Scientists who search for extraterrestrial civilizations are scrambling to get a closer look, reports Ross Andersen for The Atlantic.
A Revolutionary New Physics Hypothesis: Three Time Dimensions, One Space Dimension. reports SciTechDaily. "How would our world be perceived by observers moving faster than light in a vacuum? According to theorists from Warsaw and Oxford universities, such a view would differ from what we encounter daily, with the presence of not only spontaneous phenomena but also particles traveling multiple paths simultaneously."
Astronomers discover potential habitable exoplanet only 31 light-years from Earth, reports Laurence Tognetti for Space.com. "Is Wolf 1069 b the Earth-like exoplanet we've been looking for?"
The hard truth about finding the Universe’s first stars--The Universe certainly formed stars, at one point, for the very first time. But we haven't found them yet. Here's what everyone should know, reports Big Think.
Einstein’s theory helps to reveal Jupiter’s distant duplicate--For the first time, astronomers have identified a planet outside the Solar System using ‘microlensing’ data from a telescope in space, reports Nature.
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