Breakthrough Listen announced with $100 million

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Investor Yuri Milner speaking on stage in 2015
Yuri Milner, who announced Breakthrough Listen with Stephen Hawking in 2015 TechCrunch, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Investor Yuri Milner, joined by Stephen Hawking at the Royal Society in London, announced Breakthrough Listen, a privately funded $100 million, 10-year search for signals from other civilizations using the Green Bank and Parkes radio telescopes and an optical telescope at Lick Observatory.

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  1. OtherInternet investor Yuri Milner joins with Berkeley in $100 million search for extraterrestrial intelligence (opens in a new tab)UC Berkeley News / 2015-07-20

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