The Exoplanet Next-Door: Astronomers Discover World in Nearest Star System
Wednesday, October 17, 2012 - 10:02
in Astronomy & Space
As humankind's radio and television broadcasts leak out into space and propagate across the galaxy at the speed of light, it is tempting to speculate on who might be listening in--and what they might know about us. A hypothetical civilization 50 light-years away, should they possess the technology to receive and decipher our stray radio waves, would witness a planet enmeshed in the Cuban Missile crisis , the sights and sounds of 1962 only just having reached their detectors. [More]