Photo: New Alien-Life Search Aims to Eavesdrop on ETs

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An artist's rendering depicts a hypothetical world inhabited by intelligent life. When completed in 2008, the Mileura Wide-Field Array in Australia will be able to eavesdrop for unintentional signals from any such worlds within 30 light-years of Earth.

Illustration by David A. Aguilar (CfA)

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