{"id":117540,"date":"2020-12-22T20:23:21","date_gmt":"2020-12-23T04:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/seti-institute-admits-that-proxima-centauri-signal-is-very-strange"},"modified":"2020-12-22T20:23:21","modified_gmt":"2020-12-23T04:23:21","slug":"seti-institute-admits-that-proxima-centauri-signal-is-very-strange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/seti-institute-admits-that-proxima-centauri-signal-is-very-strange","title":{"rendered":"SETI Institute Admits That Proxima Centauri Signal Is Very Strange"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/seti-institute-admits-that-proxima-centauri-signal-is-very-strange.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Interesting\u2026<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A 982 megahertz signal dubbed BLC1 (Breakthrough Listen 1) came from the star, as spotted by the Parkes telescope in Australia in April and May 2019. Most tantalizingly, the relatively nearby star system contains a planet dubbed Proxima b, which is about 20 percent larger than Earth and located in the system\u2019s habitable zone, the area where it\u2019s theoretically possible for life to sustain itself.<\/p>\n<p>The news also met with a healthy dose of skepticism. In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seti.org\/did-proxima-centauri-just-call-say-hello-not-really\">a statement<\/a> released today, the SETI Institute commented on the controversial report. The main takeaway: Breakthrough Listen\u2019s discovery is a candidate, not a confirmed signal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause of its profile, it\u2019s very unlikely that the signal was produced by a natural but unknown cosmic source, but who knows\u2026 Nature often surprises us,\u201d reads the statement, penned by SETI Institute senior planetary astronomer Franck Marchis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting\u2026 A 982 megahertz signal dubbed BLC1 (Breakthrough Listen 1) came from the star, as spotted by the Parkes telescope in Australia in April and May 2019. Most tantalizingly, the relatively nearby star system contains a planet dubbed Proxima b, which is about 20 percent larger than Earth and located in the system\u2019s habitable zone, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":609,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/609"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}