A high-powered telescope nestled in the remote wilderness may hold the key to finding extraterrestrial life.
The Green Bank Telescope became the first radio astronomy telescope in the United States at the time of its founding in 1957.
Radio telescopes like the GBT detect energy waves emitted by stellar objects and amplify them to learn more about their structure, composition, and movement through space.
If advanced extraterrestrial life exists beyond Earth, the GBT stands at the forefront of discovering it.
"It feels to me like this is something of a golden age," radio astronomer Steve Croft explained.
The West Virginia facility contains 6,000 hard drives holding 40 petabytes of data, roughly equivalent to 40,000 laptops.
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