SETI Researchers Have Begun Scanning the Backgrounds of Images for Alien Signals

Credit: NASA/STScI/CEERS/TACC/S. Finkelstein/M. Bagley/Z. Levay The Breakthrough Listen Initiative, funded by billionaire Yuri Milner, is currently working to scan a million stars in our galaxy for evidence of intelligent life. There are no hits yet, but a new study proposes another way Breakthrough Listen could aid in the search for extraterrestrial life.