Kepler Candidate Planets Searched for Signs of Intelligent Life
by Nola Taylor Redd, SPACE.com Contributor
The Kepler-10 system, with its three known planets, was one of the targets of a recent SETI search for radio signals.
Credit: NASA/Ames/JPL-Caltech
A recent Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) effort studied 86 candidates in the Kepler space observatory's field for radio signals that could potentially indicate the presence of an intelligent civilization.
Of course, no radio signals were found, but the search did identify the most promising Kepler objects for wide-band observations using the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia.
"The 86 target stars were selected because they hosted planets discovered by [the year] 2011 with properties that could be conducive to the development of life," said Abhimat Gautam, of the University of California, Berkeley. [10 Exoplanets That Could Host Alien Life]
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