Recently Published Evidence
Humans have disagreed on the existence of alien life for many years. However, recently published evidence suggests that extraterrestrial lifeforms may have recently tried to make contact with Earth. Joeri van Leeuwen, an astronomer at the University of Amsterdam, published an article in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics under his leadership. Professor van Leeuwen and colleagues documented five FRBs in 2019 in their report.
FRBs Discovery
When the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope in the Netherlands was renovated, the FRBs were discovered. The Apertif Radio Transient System (ARTS), a supercomputer, and 14 25-meter dishes are both installed at Westerbork.
According to the paper that was just released, “Only through the very high time and frequency resolution of ARTS are these hard-to-find FRBs detected, producing an unbiased view of the intrinsic population properties.”
Eric Kooistra from the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy said on the upgrades to the Westerbork: “One cannot just go buy the complex electronics you need for this.
“A large team and I designed the majority of the system myself. As a result, we created one of the most advanced machines in the world. After the modification, the Westerbork has improved its ability to detect FRBs and identify the precise locations of the frequencies. Astronomers discovered five FRBs within five weeks in 2019 as a consequence. These had traveled through space for almost 4 billion years.
Triangulum Galaxy
Three of the five, however, breached the Triangulum Galaxy on their approach to Earth. This spiral galaxy is approximately 2.73 million light years away from Earth. The FRBs passed through the Triangulum Galaxy, crossed paths with the Andromeda Galaxy, and then came within ‘the halos’ of the Milky Way. Each FRB emerged at random and may have come from a neutron star, a black hole, or even artificial signals made by intelligent creatures (often known as aliens). FRBs may be coming from distant alien transmitters powering interstellar probes, according to research from the Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics published in 2017.
Five New FRBs
An artificial origin for these signals, according to institute professor Avi Loeb, “is worth contemplating.”
According to the most recent findings, Professor van Leeuwen stated that “uniquely energetic emission mechanisms must drive fast radio bursts (FRBs). We found five new FRBs, which is a big increase above the roughly 100 released [in 2019]. The Apertif Radio Transient System (ARTS): Design, commissioning, data release, and detection of the first five fast radio bursts were published this week, although they discover five FRBs in 2019. Although they verify only five of these, the researchers concede that it is challenging to keep track of FRBs because they “pierce galaxies at random points in time.” The group led by Professor van Leeuwen currently seeks a deeper comprehension of FRBs. The astronomers also wish to determine whether these five originated from extraterrestrial life.
Do aliens exist?
It is a pretty intriguing subject that NASA has been attempting to comprehend, investigate, and resolve for a very long time. We have not yet found evidence of extraterrestrial life, nor have we found any other planets with evidence of life. However, if we think about life on our planet beyond the large animals such as elephants, whales, and redwood trees and concentrate on the microscopic things, we’ve found microbial life almost everywhere on Earth.
Our understanding of livable habitats keeps growing. We’ve just started searching beyond Earth. NASA has developed four landers and five rovers to Mars. Additionally, incredible cameras have been added to orbiters so they may capture images of the whole surface of the Red Planet. But we’ve only really looked at a small portion of Mars. And that is just one of the promising bodies in our solar system to search for life.
The frozen worlds of the outer solar system, such as Jupiter’s Europa and Saturn’s Enceladus, appear to have potentially habitable subsurface oceans. And only that is contained within our solar system. The more exoplanets we discover orbiting other stars, the more we discover about the many settings that potentially support life.
Wrapping Up
We are unable to definitively state that aliens exist at this time. “The universe is a pretty big place,” said Carl Sagan. If it’s just the two of us, it seems like a terrible waste of room. NASA will therefore keep looking.
