Catching 19 signals from another planet transmitted to Earth

Australian scientists have captured 19 "radio waves" (FRB) - the kind of signal that many astronomers around the world expect to come from an alien civilization.

The research team at Swinburne University of Technology (Australia) said it has started its search since 2017, using the ASKAP (Australian Square Kilometer Array Pathfinder) system .

Part of ASKAP system - (photo provided by the team).

ASKAP is a huge telescope network of 36 large radio pans and many modern devices located in Western Australia, by the Federal Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO), a national science agency. Australian, design and manufacture.

In total, the system captured 20 alien signals, but one of them was published a while ago, so in the article just published online in Nature on October 10, the science team only mention 19 signals.

Lead researcher Ryan Shannon said that among the FRB signals, the source code signal FRB 171020 has the closest distance, coming from a planet that is 425 million light-years away.

In particular, these new alien signals are clearer and less dispersed than the previous signals they have captured, meaning they can be transmitted directly to Earth without interference from obstructions.

Another corner of the giant telescope system located in Western Australia - (photo provided by the team).

What is FRB? - it's a question that's still controversial and needs further research. This is not the first time humans have received extraterrestrial signals, but so far, no one has deciphered them. Scientists believe it may come from a large explosion far away from Earth and also what we are always looking for - signals from an alien civilization.

In mid-September, a group of American scientists also announced the discovery of 72 radio waves captured by an AI system (artificial intelligence) through the Green Bank Telescope telescope system located in the West. Virginia (USA). These 72 signals come from the source, a galaxy 3 billion light years from Earth.