Earth's Shadow Hunts for Alien Probes ⚡ экспресс
Original: "A Cost-Effective Search for Extraterrestrial Probes in the Solar System"
Scientists have proposed a new way to search for extraterrestrial artifacts, using Earth's shadow as a filter.
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Astronomers have for the first time used Earth's shadow as a natural filter to search for alien probes. Usually, objects near the Sun are lost in its glare, but the shadow reveals them. In ZTF telescope data, several mysterious fast flashes were found — perhaps these are artificial devices.
🎯 Earth's shadow reaches about 1.4 million kilometers — almost four times the distance to the Moon.