Did scientists pick up the first intelligent radio waves?

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Did scientists just pick up the first intelligent radio waves from a distant ALIEN planet?

ASTRONOMERS have picked up five mysterious unidentified radio signals that could originate from OUTSIDE the Milky Way.

By Jon Austin

PUBLISHED: 00:03, Sun, Nov 29, 2015 | UPDATED: 14:08, Sun, Nov 29, 2015






Has the telescope picked up signals of aliens from another galaxy?



The "fast radio bursts" included one "double signal" never heard before and have left astronomers buzzing with excitement over the possibility of it being a message with alien origins.



Only 11 of the unidentified transient radio pulses have been recorded before around the world.



And it is the curious new double blast - which was accompanied by four "singles" - which has baffled astronomers analysing data from the Parkes radio telescope in New South Wales, Australia.



Emily Petroff from Swinburne University, in Melbourne, one of the team who discovered the signals, believes the origin could be more remarkable than anything recorded before.



She tweeted: "We have no idea what's going on, but we know it's definitely something cool.”



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The Parkes Observatory in Australia picked up the signals



The discovery is being compared in significance to the recording of the "Wow signal" - a strong narrowband radio wave found by Jerry Ehman in 1977.



That radio burst, picked up by the Big Ear radio telescope of The Ohio State University in the United States, bore all the expected hallmarks of non-terrestrial origin but has not been detected since.


Fast radio bursts (FRBs) were first discovered from records in 2007, and we finally saw one in real-time last year.



However, there has never, until now, been a double blast.



They are quick-fire bursts of radio energy, originating from great distances away, and, as a result, must have contained a huge amount of energy.



The source remains a total mystery.



Seemingly similar readings which excited astronomers earlier this year called perytons at the time were later found to be coming from microwave ovens on Earth being prematurely opened in the canteens of observatories where observations were being taken.



Or was there are more down-to-earth explanation?


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