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SETI Researchers Double-Checked 1 Million Objects for Signs of Alien Signals
- SETI uses a data system called COSMIC to search for artificial radio emissions and look for signs of extraterrestrial life.
- The radio astronomy observatory records data from over 950,000 objects throughout the galaxy.
- The VLA is engaged in the VLA Sky Survey (VLASS), a long-term effort to detect transient radio signals in the entire visible sky.
- The system helped scientists learn new things, even though no signs of alien life were found.
- Researchers used this test to prove the system is viable and will need to be more automated to manage vast volumes of data in modern astronomy.
- However, this is just the beginning of the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.
- We need new sorting mechanisms to process the ever-increasing amounts of data.
- COSMIC is one such system, but other methods will continue to be developed so that humanity may find the answer to one of the most pressing questions of all time.
- It is becoming one of the largest SETI experiments ever designed.
- The work thus far is an important milestone, and with the continuing database, the search for life continues.
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