Astronomers are using China's powerful FAST radio telescope to chase after 100 intriguing signals detected by the SETI@home project, which is run by SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) scientists.
SETI@home, which ran from 1999 to 2020, had millions of users all around the world donating their CPU time to downloadable software that churned through data collected by the Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico. In the end, 12 billion candidate narrowband signals were spotted. These signals appeared as "momentary blips of energy at a particular frequency coming from a particular point in the sky," David Anderson, a computer scientist at the University of California, Berkeley and co-founder of the SETI@home project, said in a statement.
