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SPACE: How to Find Aliens

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Alien civilizations with technology on a par with humanity’s could be detectable using today’s instruments. A new study suggests that if geostationary satellites are thick enough around an alien world, they could be spotted with telescopes already hunting for undiscovered planets.

Both governments and private corporations on our own world use geostationary satellites — which orbit such that they hover over the same spot on Earth — for science, communications, espionage and military applications.

If advanced alien civilizations loft enough satellites into their own geostationary belts, these spacecraft could create a dense, ring-like structure visible from Earth, according to the study. “It’s … a small chance, but the point is that it’s free,” study lead author Hector Socas-Navarro, of Astrophysics Institute of the Canary Islands, told Space.com by email.

By Nola Taylor Redd – Full Story at Live Science

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