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  • artist's conception of Kepler-186f
    extraterrestrial intelligence
    / Radio searches

    The Allen Telescope Array (ATA, named after its principal funder, American technologist Paul Allen) has 42 small (6 metres [20 feet] in diameter) antennas. When complete, the ATA will have 350 antennas and be hundreds of times faster than previous experiments in the search for transmissions…

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    The Allen Telescope Array (ATA, named after its principal funder, American technologist Paul Allen) has 42 small (6 metres [20 feet] in diameter) antennas. When complete, the ATA will have 350 antennas and be hundreds of times faster than previous experiments in the search for transmissions…

    Read More