Astronomers involved in searching for viable worlds outside our solar system said they had received "strange signals" from a star 11 light years away.
Scientists from the Arecibo Observatory in Peru, studying red dwarf stars in the hope of finding planets around them, observed mysterious radio signals from a star named Ross 128 on May 12.
This led to a question: Can these radio signals be signs of life outside the planet?
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Professor Abel Mendez, an astrologer and director of the Planetetary Habitability Laboratory at the University of Peru, said he did not think so.
"If you are wondering, the hypothesis of repeated space objects lies in the essence of many other interpretations that are more obvious."
However, the source of strange signals still raises many questions among researchers, where one theory suggests that strong explosions on the surface of a star nearby, led to the issuance of these signals.
Another theory is that the signals come from another object in the field of vision of the star Ross 128. However, Mendez says: "There are not many nearby objects in the field of seeing Ross 128."
Mysterious signals can come from something much closer, including a high satellite orbit, passing through the telescope field.
"We have never seen satellites emit such signals," Mendez said. Whatever the signals, they are not interference with local radio frequencies, they are also unique.
It has already been shown that the dwarf star has planets orbiting the habitable zone, as is the case with newly discovered terabast-1.
Mendez and his team are waiting to observe Ross 128 on Sunday, July 16, and until then, we will have to wait patiently to see what they may reach.