Word: epsilon
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...planet revolving around the star Epsilon Eridani there may be a radio antenna several times as big as a baseball stadium. From it toward other planets revolving around other stars may go messages proclaiming the existence of a high civilization in the Epsilon Eridani system. The Earth may be one of the planets toward which such messages are beamed...
...National Radio Astronomy Observatory at Green Bank, W. Va., who this week launched an effort called Project Ozma-after the Princess in Author L. Frank Baum's strange and faraway Land of Oz. In Project Ozma, Green Bank's 85-ft. radio telescope is turned toward Epsilon Eridani and another star, Tau Ceti, both of them about eleven light years (66 trillion miles) away. Tuned to the 21-centimeter waves (1,420 megacycles) that come from cold hydrogen in interstellar space, the telescope is so set up that it points for a short time at the target star...