{"id":183895,"date":"2024-02-28T09:36:12","date_gmt":"2024-02-28T15:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/scientists-scanning-beautiful-star-system-for-signs-of-alien-tech"},"modified":"2024-02-28T09:36:12","modified_gmt":"2024-02-28T15:36:12","slug":"scientists-scanning-beautiful-star-system-for-signs-of-alien-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/scientists-scanning-beautiful-star-system-for-signs-of-alien-tech","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Scanning Beautiful Star System for Signs of Alien Tech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-scanning-beautiful-star-system-for-signs-of-alien-tech2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last year, scientists discovered a <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/star-system-so-perfect\" class=\"\">mathematically perfect star system<\/a> \u2014 and now, they\u2019re looking into whether it might contain signs of alien tech.<\/p>\n<p>Dubbed HD 110067, the star system located just 100 light-years from Earth has six exoplanets that are each perfectly spaced apart in the sort of mathematical harmony rarely seen in our chaotic Universe. In a paper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-023-06692-3?utm_medium=affiliate&utm_source=commission_junction&utm_campaign=CONR_PF018_ECOM_GL_PHSS_ALWYS_DEEPLINK&utm_content=textlink&utm_term=PID100044684&CJEVENT=89da406dd5b911ee81b6032d0a82b821\" class=\"\">published in the journal <em>Nature<\/em><\/a> last November, scientists listed off the astounding attributes of the system, which unfortunately did not include any planets in the so-called \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/exoplanets.nasa.gov\/search-for-life\/habitable-zone\/\" class=\"\">habitable zone<\/a>,\u201d or distance from the orbit-inducing star that could support life as we know it here on Earth.<\/p>\n<p>All the same, scientists aren\u2019t done looking, and as radio astronomer and alien life-seeking expert Steve Croft of the University of Berkeley <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/alien-technosignatures-exoplanet-mathematically-perfect-orbits\" class=\"\">told <em><a href=\"http:\/\/Space.com\">Space.com<\/a><\/em><\/a>, there\u2019s no reason that advanced civilizations may not have visited HD 110,067 and potentially left some of their technology behind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, scientists discovered a mathematically perfect star system \u2014 and now, they\u2019re looking into whether it might contain signs of alien tech. Dubbed HD 110067, the star system located just 100 light-years from Earth has six exoplanets that are each perfectly spaced apart in the sort of mathematical harmony rarely seen in our chaotic [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527,2229],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life","category-mathematics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183895","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\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}