In case you hadn’t noticed, it’s massive
Chinese officials have stated that their 500-foot Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST), more commonly known as the ‘Sky Eye Telescope’ may have picked up on signals potentially broadcast by alien civilisations.
According to scientists, Sky Eye has received a number of mysterious signals in the past few days and those working for China’s Department of Astronomy and Extraterrestrial Civilization Research Group believe what they have identified are “possible technological traces and extraterrestrial civilizations from outside the earth”.
Detailing their current findings in a report published on Tuesday by Science and Technology Daily – the official Chinese newspaper for the Ministry of Science and Technology – researchers at Beijing Normal University claimed to have noted “several cases” of these signals and while their origin is yet to be verified, they possess a number of fascinating details.
China’s Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (#FAST), also dubbed as the "China Sky Eye," has detected 509 new pulsars, four times of the total number of pulsars detected by other telescopes worldwide. pic.twitter.com/dNd1ux1smA
— Hua Chunying 华春莹 (@SpokespersonCHN) December 22, 2021
Professor Zhang Tongjie, the chief scientist behind the research group said that not only has the facility picked up on “several narrow-band electromagnetic signals”, but that these particular frequencies are different from [those detected in] the past.
The 54-year-old cosmologist has been pursuing proof of alien life for years and speaking to Chinese outlet Sixth Tone back in 2020, he insisted that “We [China] will probably find it first”, adding that “[the West] have more experience, but… our telescope can detect things theirs can’t.”
As you can see, the Sky Eye telescope stretches for an incredible 500 metres and is considered the only giant, single-dish, radio telescope in the world. The giant observatory, built on a mountaintop Guizhou province back in 2016, is said to be 2.5 times more powerful than any previous instrument of its kind, having assisted many other countries in identifying foreign objects.
Il radiotelescopio🔭sferico con apertura di 500 metri della #Cina 🇨🇳(#FAST), soprannominato anche "#China Sky Eye", ha finora fornito servizi di osservazione per 27 oggetti scientifici provenienti da 14 Paesi in tutto il mondo, ha affermato il Presidente Accademia Cinese Scienze. pic.twitter.com/cCaiNuozzR
— Ambasciata Repubblica Popolare Cinese in Italia (@AmbCina) June 7, 2022
Once again, the exact details surrounding these most recent mysterious signals are yet to be fully ascertained but if their nature and potential sender are going to be found, it’ll be from here.
China aren’t the only ones insisting that alien civilisations are there to be found either; back in May, a PhD in Spain published a paper which claimed that there are at least “four malicious alien civilisations that could attack earth” in the Milky Way galaxy alone. The universe is a big place.
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