Projects: SETI Radio Searches
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January 27, 2012: The Quest for the "Wow!" One Man's search for SETI's Most Promising Signal
No one has spent more time and energy searching for the Wow! signal than Bob Gray, author of The Elusive Wow: Searching for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. Gray is not a professional astronomer, the kind that works in an academic department and receives a steady paycheck from a university or an observatory. Gray makes his living as a data analyst, which means that in radio-astronomy he is technically an amateur – in the best sense of the word: one who does his work as a labor of love. But when it comes to the nuts and bolts of mounting a search for extraterrestrial intelligence, he is as professional as they come.
February 26, 2007: Keeping an Ear to the Center of the Galaxy, Southern SETI Prepares for Great Leap Forward
...There is, however, one ongoing SETI search that has been keeping an ear out for the call from the center of our galaxy for more than two decades. Known, appropriately, as “Southern SETI,” it makes use of the two 30-meter dishes at the Instituto Argentino de Radioastronomia (IAR), 35 kilometers south of Buenos Aires in Argentina. Located in the southern part of the continent of South America, Southern SETI has a continuous view of densest star-fields in our galaxy. And, since 1990, it has been sponsored and supported by The Planetary Society.
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