SETI Institute Employs SETI Ellipsoid Technique for Searching for Signals from Distant Civilizations

SETI Institute Employs SETI Ellipsoid Technique for Searching for Signals from Distant Civilizations PRESS RELEASE DATE February 12, 2024 CONTACT Rebecca McDonald Director of Communications, SETI Institute rmcdonald@seti.org ONLINE Press Release/Image... More

SETI Institute Employs SETI Ellipsoid Technique for Searching for Signals from Distant Civilizations PRESS RELEASE DATE February 12, 2024 CONTACT Rebecca McDonald Director of Communications, SETI Institute rmcdonald@seti.org ONLINE Press Release/Image https://bit.ly/49enkBx Image credit: Zayna Sheikh February 12, 2024, Mountain View, CA -- In a paper published in the Astronomical Journal, a team of researchers from the SETI Institute, Berkeley SETI Research Center and the University of Washington reported an exciting development for the field of astrophysics and the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI), using observations from the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) mission to monitor the SETI Ellipsoid, a method for identifying potential signals from advanced civilizations in the cosmos. The SETI Ellipsoid is a strategic approach for selecting potential technosignature candidates based on the hypothesis that extraterrestrial civilizations, upon observing significan Less