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Meet the technosignature researcher on the lookout for exo-civilizations

Physics World

The work was published in the Astrophysical Journal in 2020 with Sheikh as the lead author ( 160 29 ). But through talking to her future adviser, astronomer Jason Wright, a leader in the SETI field , she remembered what she loved so much about technosignature research. “I It’s adjacent, but better supported,” she felt.

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Helping a Still Life Come Alive

Academy of Natural Sciences

Jason Weintraub, an entomologist for the Academy of Natural Sciences, says: “Four of the butterflies depicted are all very common species that would be found in the Netherlands, and none would have any special significance for an artist, other than that they would be familiar.”. Jim often writes about nature.

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Astronomers see star enter a ‘Maunder Minimum’ for the first time

Physics World

The flat activity “might be visible in the overall brightness of the star, which is something we’re looking into,” says Jason Wright , one of Baum’s co-authors from Penn State University. Further monitoring to try to catch HD 166620 returning to activity will now take place.

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Scanning the cosmos for signs of alien technology

Physics World

Recently Tiger Yu-Yang Hsiao from National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan and co-authors found more favourable energy-extraction possibilities from a black hole’s accretion disc, corona or relativistic plasma jets ( MNRAS 10.1093/mnras/stab1832 ).