The New Search for E.T.

The New Search for E.T.

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A new telescope has been especially designed and constructed at the Oak Ridge Observatory to detect pulses of visible light that a far-off civilization could be sending toward Earth. Unlike a regular imaging telescope, the new telescope has no lens, nor is it designed to pluck pristine images of cel...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:IEEE spectrum 43, 11(duplicate) (2006).
Main Author: Ross, M.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Harvard telescope.
SETI.
Extraterrestrial search.
Imaging telescopes.
Laser applications.
Multipixel photomultiplier tubes.
Photon buckets.
Telescope applications.
Visible light pulses.