The SETI Institute, Berkeley SETI Research Center, and the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research have unveiled a groundbreaking study utilizing the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) in Western Australia. Under the leadership of Dr. Chenoa Tremblay from the SETI Institute and Prof. Steven Tingay from Curtin University, this research marks the first attempt to search for extraterrestrial technology in galaxies beyond our own, specifically targeting low radio frequencies around 100 MHz.
This innovative study used the MWA’s large field of view (FOV), allowing the team to cover about 2,800 galaxies in one observation, of which 1300 we know the distance to. Usually, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) has focused on signals within our galaxy.
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