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| Tango01 | 30 Oct 2016 4:04 p.m. PST |
… of SETI claims stirs up criticism. "Two astronomers have generated a debate by claiming that they may have found the spectral signature of messages from an extraterrestrial civilization – but the debate is mostly over whether the claims are worth publishing. The claims are contained in a research paper that was written by Ermanno Borra and Eric Trottier of Quebec's Laval University. The paper is scheduled to appear in the Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific.
Borra and Trottier combed through 2.5 million readings from distant stars that were recorded by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, looking for periodic variations in the spectral characteristics of the starlight. In 234 cases, they found a periodic variation in the spectral pattern, mostly in the light coming from sunlike stars…"
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