Search for Extra-Terrestial Intelligence Dictionary
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Planetary Society: A large, publicly supported, not-for-profit organization that has many research projects related to astronomy.
Project Argus: That uses a global network of small, amateur radio telescopes whose purpose is to seek a real-time coverage of the entire sky.
Project Cyclops: A 1971 NASA project that investigated SETI, creating a design for coordinating large numbers of radio telescopes to search for radio signals from up to 1,000 light years in order to search for intelligent light.
Project Ozma: An early SETI experiment that began in 1960 by Cornell University astronomer Frank Drake at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory to search for signs of life in distant solar systems through the use of intergalactic radio waves.
Project Phoenix: A SETI project that searches for extraterrestrial intelligence by listening for radio signals.
radio astronomy: A subfield of astronomy that studies celestial objects in the radio frequency portion of the electromagnetic spectrum.
radio telescope: A form of directional radio antenna that can collect data from satellites and space probes. This is different from a regular optical telescope, as it can operate in the radio frequency portion of the electromagnetic spectrum and can detect and collect data on radio sources.
reflecting telescope: A telescope that functions solely with an arrangement of mirrors.
refracting telescope: A telescope that uses an arrangement of lenses in order to function.
Sentinel: The use of Suitcase SETI that was put into use with a 26-meter Harvard Smithsonian radio telescope.
SERENDIP: Acronym for Search for Extraterrestrial Radio Emissions from Nearby Developed Intelligent Populations, a UC Berkeley SETI program that uses deep space radio telescope data for analyzing possible extra terrestrial signals.
SETI: Abbreviation for Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence, it describes any given number of organized efforts to detect extraterrestrial life.
SETI League, Inc: An international grassroots organization dedicated to privatizing the electromagnetic Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence.
SETI Net: A private search system created by a single individual that is affiliated with SETI and project Argus stations.
SETI@home: A distributed computing project using Internet-connected computers that is hosted by Space Sciences Laboratory at UC Berkeley.
Suitcase SETI: A 1981 work that used digital signal processing for a portable spectrum analyzer that had the capacity of 131,000 narrow band channels. Its purpose was to search for extraterrestrial signals.
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