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scientists searching the cosmos for signs of life have found something very interesting a repeating fast radio bursts and it has some people wondering is it aliens well truth is there's no clear answer but before we start talking about little green men let me explain these fast radio bursts or FRBS for short they are signals far beyond the Milky Way and they only last a few milliseconds and since scientists first noticed them only about two dozen have been recorded it's usually a random event there's this one particular FRB spot that has scientists intrigued is from a distant dwarf galaxy about three billion light-years away a burst was found there in 2012 but a few years later in 2015 another burst was found in that same spot jump to this past week and researchers pointed instruments at that spot again watching for five hours across a wide frequency band and after combing through four hundred terabytes of data they found a radio signal pulsing there 15 more times so what could have caused that are these outbursts from neutron stars or directed energy from alien worlds scientists are still not sure but whatever or whoever causes those bright radio bursts well that happened a very long time ago when life-forms on earth were just single-cell organisms we are just able to see it now and the researchers are asking other astronomers to look up to the sky for follow-up observations to help gather more data I'm Bridget Carey and you can find more details on this cosmic mystery at sea Netcom