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More than 40 years ago, two Japanese astronomers sent a radio signal to a star called Altair, 16.7 light-years away. The response, if it comes, is expected these days.
London – Al Arabiya.net
Posted on: August 26, 2023: 03:45 PM GST Last updated: August 26, 2023: 03:56 PM GST
The community of scientists is awaiting encrypted messages that are supposed to arrive these days from aliens outside the planet, and if these messages do arrive, they say that it will be the latest physical evidence, and may be conclusive evidence, of the existence of aliens, but these creatures live far from our planet Tens or even hundreds of light years away.
According to the information published by the British newspaper “Daily Mail” and viewed by Al Arabiya.net, space scientists and astronomers expect messages from distant worlds outside the planet to arrive these days, indicating that they have been waiting for these expected messages for more than forty years.
According to the newspaper, Japanese astronomers, Masaaki Morimoto and Hisashi Hirabayashi, sent a radio signal towards a star called Altair, 16.7 light-years away, and that was more than forty years ago, while a response is expected from aliens these days.
Using the Stanford University telescope, the duo sent a message aimed at showing what Earthlings look like to any alien orbiting the star.
A team of astronomers at the University of Hyogo, Japan, hopes to finally get the response they were waiting for and prove the existence of alien life outside the planet.
Japanese telescope that monitors the response
And the “Daily Mail” says that scientists have placed a huge radio telescope in the Japanese city of Saku to receive a response from any planets orbiting Altair, which is one of the brightest stars in the night sky.
August 22, 2023 was considered the most likely date for a response, although it is not clear how realistic the team’s expectations are to actually receive a response.
The original radio signal was transmitted by Morimoto and Hirabayashi of Stanford University on August 15, 1983, and represented 13 graphics. These 13 drawings depict the evolution of life on Earth, from single-celled organisms to fish, lizards, monkeys and a family of humans.
Graphics sent to space
Four decades later, a team led by Shinya Narusawa at the University of Hyogo is using an antenna over 200 feet (64 meters) in diameter called the Usuda Deep Space Center in Saku City in hopes of discovering a response.
Narusawa noted that exoplanets, that is, planets outside our solar system, are being discovered all the time, and it is believed that there are billions more of them. “A large number of exoplanets have been discovered since the 1990s,” Narusawa said. “There may be a planet whose environment could support life,” he added.
Altair is located 16.7 light-years away in the constellation Aquila and is one of the brightest stars in the night sky. There are no known planets in orbit around it. However, this does not mean that Altair certainly does not have any planets, as the researchers hope to get a response to their message that would be an indication of some form of life.
According to a previous report issued in 2008, the duo expected a response much sooner than now, around 2015, but it did not come then.
Hirabayashi had hoped that the message would have reached aliens in the Altair star system in 1999 before they would send a reply back to Earth.
