Jill Tarter – Proxima Centauri, the Drake Equation, and SETI in 2021! (#103)

Last week the Guardian and Scientific American announced that
Breakthrough Listen astronomers using the Parkes radio telescope in
Australia saw a weird radio signal coming from Proxima Centauri,
the star system closest to Earth. The signal behaves strangely,
only using a narrow 982MHz band typically not used by human-made
spacecraft. It also does not correspond to known natural processes.
The frequency moves around too…not what you’d expect from a planet.
As soon as I heard about it, I knew I had to talk to my friend,
Jill Tarter! Check out the biography of Jill (Making Contact) here:
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