All About Space

In the event of alien contact

1 Verification

hile the discovery of a signal will be exciting, the first step is to make sure that the signal is real, and not from Earth-based interference. To do this the discoverer must repeatedly observe the signal five times, and rule out other sources like satellites or terrestrial radio waves. If the signal is continuously seen from the same region of

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