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 | | | Scientists will search for laser-like optical light pulses that could be beacons from an advanced alien civilization. Image via MIT/New Atlas. | | |
| | Breakthrough Listen's new search for alien lasers | | | For the last few decades, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence has focused on detecting radio signals. See the illustration below, to learn how far human radio signals extend in our Milky Way. Now, a new collaboration between Breakthrough Listen and VERITAS will focus on looking for laser-like flashes of light. Read more. | | | | | | | | Where's the moon? Last quarter | | | A last quarter moon rises around midnight and sets around noon the following day. This last quarter moon falls on July 25, 2019, at 01:18 UTC; that translates to 9:18 p.m. EDT on July 24. Read more. | | | | | |
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|  | | | In Thursday's predawn sky … Moon and Uranus | | Before sunrise Thursday, you'll find the moon at or near its last quarter phase and in the vicinity of the 7th planet Uranus on the sky's dome. Read more. | | | | | |
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 | | Extent of human radio broadcasts | | This illustration shows how far human radio broadcasts have reached into our Milky Way galaxy – not the black square – but the little blue dot at the center of that zoomed-in square. The expanding bubble announcing humanity’s presence in the Milky Way is now only about 200 light-years wide, in contrast to our 100,000-light-year galaxy. Graphic via Adam Grossman/Nick Risinger. Read more from Emily Lakdawalla at the Planetary Society. | | |
