Israeli-backed Breakthrough Listen expands search for alien life
Breakthrough Listen is one of the projects of the Breakthrough Initiatives and is a leading mainstream scientific initiative for the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI).
Artist's impression of the MeerKAT telescope in South Africa, and the Breakthrough Listen compute cluster, scanning the sky for possible signals (represented as binary codes) from extraterrestrial intelligence. One of the first targets to be observed by the new instrument will be Alpha Centauri.(photo credit: Danielle Futselaar / Breakthrough Listen / SARAO)ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
