Josef Szylar

📡 Are we searching for aliens wrong? Ben Zuckerman proposes a radical SETI shift in a new Astrophysical Journal paper: instead of the narrow 1.4 GHz band, search the full 1–100 GHz range plus infrared. Existing astronomical surveys may have captured more relevant data than dedicated SETI programs. The infrared remains a huge unknown.

📅 March 2026
🔗 https://www.universetoday.com/articles/why-conventional-seti-needs-a-major-refocus
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Why Conventional SETI Needs A Major Refocus

After decades of searching for alien signals in narrow radio and microwave bandwidths, a new paper suggests that we take a wholly different approach. The idea is to broaden the search to a much wider range of the electromagnetic spectrum.

Universe Today
Mar 24 at 5:33pmWeb