Question

Name the Stephen Hawking project which detect 15 short radio bursts from space.
(A) Breakthrough Mission
(B) Breakthrough Listen
(C) Breakthrough Communication
(D) Breakthrough Action

Answer 1

Hint: ‘BREAKTHROUGH LISTEN’ is a kind of astronomical project or a initiative which was launched in 2015 by famous scientist Stephen Hawking and Russian billionaire Yuri Milner and they are also having their team all over the world which are looking for the evidences of life using their telescopes.

Complete step-by-step answer:
Stephen Hawking wants to discover life beyond the earth. The publicity of this project was announced in July. A project was launched in august that is named ‘BREAKTHROUGH LISTEN’ with the initiative to find the signs of intelligent life in the universe. This research is carried out at the astronomy department at the University of California, Berkeley. This project is expected to continue for years. The project targeted one million nearby stars and the centres around galaxies.
     As a result, fast radio bursts were detected from ‘F.R.B. ’. Fast radio bursts are the kind of bright pulses of radio transmission that come from different galaxies. The fast radio bursts come to prove that the equipment F.R.B. is working well. This radio project works 100 times faster than any project.
There is a funding of 100 million dollars for this project. This wants to discover the signs of extraterrestrial civilization and they are searching galaxies and stars for radio signals. This research is carried out by two telescopes. One is the ‘Green bank telescope ‘which is in the northern hemisphere and the other one is ‘Parkes telescope’ which is in the southern hemisphere.
Breakthrough Listen observed an interstellar asteroid,’ OUMUAMUA’ in December which is of elongated shape but no emissions were detected.
A search for laser light emissions was carried out in December from ‘Boyajian’s stars’, but later it was observed that they are coming from the earth and not from the star.
Researchers are still working on this project.

So, the correct answer is “Option C”.

Note: The Green bank telescope is the largest steerable radio telescope in the world and The Parkes telescope is the second largest steerbale telescope in the southern hemisphere. FRB \[121102\]was discovered on \[2\]November\[2012\]. SETI stands for ‘Search for extraterrestrial intelligence ‘which searches for intelligent extraterrestrial life.