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Avi Loeb, the Frank B. Baird Jr. Professor of Science and director of the Institute for Theory and Computation, discussed tools to search for extraterrestrial life in a talk titled “New Search Methods for Primitive and Intelligent Life Far from Earth.”

Far-out questions

Harvard astronomer Loeb caught up in the thrill of the search

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DateSeptember 25, 2014November 26, 2018

The Magellan telescope (pictured) christened “Clay” after astronomer Landon Clay, a Harvard graduate and philanthropist, is one of the two large Magellan telescopes at the Las Campanas Observatory in Chile.

The building blocks of planets

Twin Chilean telescopes will team with NASA spacecraft to hunt distant objects

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DateSeptember 12, 2013

Alex Parker, a postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics’ Institute for Theory and Computation, has created several astronomical videos on his own time and posted them on the Internet. His latest video depicts the 2,299 planet candidates Kepler has found since it began searching for planets around stars in 2009.

Capturing the stars

With video and sound, CfA fellow turns astronomical data into art

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DateSeptember 10, 2012July 25, 2019

If an alien civilization builds brightly lit cities like those shown in this artist's conception, future generations of telescopes might allow us to detect them. This would offer a new method of searching for extraterrestrial intelligence elsewhere in our galaxy.

Bright idea

Paper suggests new target in search for alien life: City lights

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DateNovember 9, 2011May 2, 2019