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scientists and astronomers are investigating a strange radio signal coming from deep space the signal was intercepted by the Russian ratan 600 radio telescope in Zelan chuck's kya Russia back in May 2015 the SETI Institute which is an organization devoted to searching for extraterrestrial intelligence announced that they were examining the signal which seems to be coming from a solar system called HD one six four five nine five which is 94 light-years away according to a blog post by a senior astronomer at SETI seth shostack the system contains a star much like our own Sun which is similar in size and brightness and is known to have a planet the size of Neptune orbiting it this planet is not considered hospitable to life but there could be other nearby planets astronomers simply have not yet discovered on August 28th the Allen telescope array was turned towards the system HD one sixty four five nine five in hopes of finding the same signal that was previously detected back in May of last year but astronomers have not had any luck locating the signal szostak went on to say in his post the discoverers didn't alert the SETI community to this find until now which is not as expected according to both practice and protocol if the signal seems to be of deliberate and extraterrestrial origin one of the first things to do is get others to attempt confirming observations that was not done in this case for more space related tech news check out crave cnet.com you