Launching campaign to find extraterrestrial civilization

Astronomers from around the world simultaneously point radio telescopes towards stars to look for signs of other civilizations in the universe.

A series of telescopes in dozens of countries are heading to the sky to search for radio signals emitted by other civilizations. (Photo: Internet).

The search was carried out on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Project Ozma - an extraterrestrial search program in 1960. Space said the new project was named Dorothy . Its goal is to search for radio signals emitted by other civilizations. Japan's Nishi-Harima Observatory launched the campaign.

Astronomer Frank Drake of the Institute for Civilization in the Universe (SETI Institute) in the United States launched the Project Ozma. Drake is also famous for the ' Drake equation ' - a formula that predicts the number of extraterrestrial civilizations that humans can communicate. The equation is built on many factors such as the rate of star formation, the percentage of stars that have planets around. Thanks to that formula, many scientists predict we will find evidence of the existence of extraterrestrial civilization over the next 25 years.

' I am very happy to witness the beginning of Project Dorothy, the continuation of my alien life search effort 50 years ago. This project received the participation of many talented scientists along with countless telescopes, electronic devices and computers. Today's devices are much better than what we had 50 years ago , 'Drake said.

The Dorothy project begins on November 5. Astronomers in Australia, Japan, South Korea, Italy, the Netherlands, France, Argentina and the US participated in the first search. They searched for signs of extraterrestrial civilization from the few nearest stars.

Shin-ya Narusawa , an expert working at the Nishi-Harima Observatory, said experts are focusing their attention on the stars that were studied in Project Ozma. In addition, they looked at star-planet systems that newly discovered modern telescopes or planets have water on the surface.