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Breakthrough Listen scans 'Oumuamua for signals

When: 13 Dec 2017
Where: Green Bank, WV
Sources: 2 public sources

The Green Bank Telescope, used by Breakthrough Listen to scan 'Oumuamua for signals NRAO/AUI/NSF, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

The Breakthrough Listen project pointed West Virginia's Green Bank Telescope at 'Oumuamua, the first known interstellar object, across four radio bands. Its initial results found no sign of artificial signals, though most of the data was still being analyzed.

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FirsthandBreakthrough Listen Releases Initial Results and Data from Observations of 'Oumuamua (opens in a new tab)Breakthrough Initiatives / 2017-12-13
PressInterstellar Visitor Stays Silent--for Now, No Signs of Aliens on 'Oumuamua (opens in a new tab)Scientific American (Mike Wall, Space.com) / 2017-12-14

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