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Spotlight on SETI ep 4: Chenoa Tremblay - Big Picture Science

Spotlight on SETI ep 4: Chenoa Tremblay - Big Picture Science

Update: 2024-12-21
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The SETI Institute’s search for alien biosignatures and technosignatures depends on radio telescopes. You may have seen the stunning photos of massive telescope arrays in the desert, but what types of alien signals might help researchers actually detect with those giant dishes?

In this fourth episode, Brian Edwards talks with physicist Chenoa Tremblay, a COSMIC Project Scientist who is based at the Very Large Array in New Mexico. They dig into the important role radio telescopes play in SETI, how powerful computers have supercharged the search for life off Earth, and imagine what kinds of biosignatures and technosignatures of alien life we are most likely to find.

Music by Jun Miyake

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Spotlight on SETI ep 4: Chenoa Tremblay - Big Picture Science

Spotlight on SETI ep 4: Chenoa Tremblay - Big Picture Science