DesertFox
04-11-2006, 06:50 PM
Toni Clarke
Yahoo News
11 Apr 06
A Massachusetts observatory unveiled a powerful new telescope on Tuesday designed to capture possible light signals transmitted to Earth by extraterrestrials.
The telescope is the first to be developed solely to search the skies for light pulses from aliens and will be able to cover 100,000 times the amount of sky covered by current equipment, its developers said. ...
The telescope can process the equivalent of all books in print every second. As it scans the sky it uses a type of camera that can detect a billionth-of-a-second flash of light.
"We are going from looking at a few stars a night to an all-sky survey where over a year we will search the entire northern hemisphere," Betts said.
The telescope cost about $400,000 to build, much cheaper than a typical research-quality telescope.
More (http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060411/sc_nm/science_aliens_dc;_ylt=AjBOhy6XRBwSyNSXkJQoUZCs0NU E;_ylu=X3oDMTA3MzV0MTdmBHNlYwM3NTM-)
Yahoo News
11 Apr 06
A Massachusetts observatory unveiled a powerful new telescope on Tuesday designed to capture possible light signals transmitted to Earth by extraterrestrials.
The telescope is the first to be developed solely to search the skies for light pulses from aliens and will be able to cover 100,000 times the amount of sky covered by current equipment, its developers said. ...
The telescope can process the equivalent of all books in print every second. As it scans the sky it uses a type of camera that can detect a billionth-of-a-second flash of light.
"We are going from looking at a few stars a night to an all-sky survey where over a year we will search the entire northern hemisphere," Betts said.
The telescope cost about $400,000 to build, much cheaper than a typical research-quality telescope.
More (http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060411/sc_nm/science_aliens_dc;_ylt=AjBOhy6XRBwSyNSXkJQoUZCs0NU E;_ylu=X3oDMTA3MzV0MTdmBHNlYwM3NTM-)