The mysterious message that comes from space

The world scientific community is questioning the nature of the alleged “radio signal alien”Captured by an Australian radio telescope. In fact, experts from all over the world have not yet been able to officially explain the origin of the message in question, intercepted last year, between April and May, during a total of 30 hours of interstellar monitoring. Identifying the offending signal as extraterrestrial or not, according to the academics, would be a very complex job, given that, around the Earth, there is a real indistinct confusion of sounds, in which the noises emitted by the earth’s surface mix with the signals from the more than six thousand satellites that are in orbit at the moment. Consequently, it is very easy to misunderstand, initially attributing alien nature to sounds that could find, after a short time, a much more banal and terrestrial explanation.

The radio signal picked up in Australia was intercepted by the instrumentation active at the Parkes observatory in New South Wales. The research site mentioned is currently participating in the international project Breakthrough Listen, aimed precisely at the detection of signals coming from space and financed with 100 million dollars. The creator of this scientific program was Yuri Milner, an entrepreneur from Silicon Valley with a degree in Physics.

According to the most accredited theories, the sound picked up between April and May 2019 would seem to come from the constellation where it is located Proxima Centauri, a star 4,244 light-years away from the sun. In detail, the space audio track traveled, at the time of its detection by the Australian observatory, in the range of 980 Mhz, and its frequency shifts would coincide with those that are normally associated with the shifts of a planet.

Just one planet, or rather two, gravitate in the constellation in which Proxima Centauri is located: one is composed of a mass of gas, the other is an agglomeration of rock a little larger than the Earth. The latter, called Proxima B, orbits the star every eleven days, and is located in the habitable zone within which water can exist in a fluid state. The peculiarity of this planet and the hypothesis that the mysterious radio signal would be associated with the movements of a celestial body present in the constellation of Proxima Centauri are consequently pushing more and more fans of the cosmos to cry out for the discovery of alien life.

The studies carried out so far on the most recent audio detection are about to be published, again as part of the Breakthrough Listen project, with the code BLc1. The drafting of the aforementioned studies is taking place with the awareness that meeting failures and sensational denials, in the context of theories on extraterrestrial life, is a possibility by no means remote.

Speaking of scientific blunders regarding the search for signs of the existence of extraterrestrials, a case in point is that in which astrophysicist Dame Jocelyn Burnell has been involved. This, in 1967, was in fact surprised, in analyzing the data collected by a radio telescope that she herself had helped to build, from the recording of a particular signal, which she concluded was of space origin. However, they were not aliens, but, as it would later be discovered, a pulsar, an orbiting neutron that emits radio waves, to the bitter disappointment of the supporters of the existence in the universe of extraterrestrial civilizations.

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