the Russian entrepreneur Yuri Milner has donated $ 100 million to the search for extraterrestrial civilizations. According to him, in space a few billion planets the size of Earth, which can be water and organic life. Astronomers with more sensitive equipment will be able to search the radio waves and laser light from them.

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Russian entrepreneur Yuri Milner has donated $ 100 million to the search for extraterrestrial civilizations. According to him, in space a few billion planets the size of Earth, which can be water and organic life. Astronomers with more sensitive equipment will be able to search the radio waves and laser light from them.

has Already signed five-year contracts with the world's largest radio telescopes in the USA and Australia and an optical telescope in California. 20% of their time they will devote to the search for artificial signals. A lot of money allocated to the processing and storage of data on computer power research center, Berkeley. In the analysis of data will be able to participate any experts, scientific organizations and astronomers, because the Internet will have free access to all collected information.

the Most thorough study of a million undergo the most close to the Solar system of stars, the center of our galaxy, with the largest concentration of stars and the nearest hundred galaxies.