30 August 2016
Is there anybody out there? SETI researchers look to explain mysterious signal
...' Special Astrophysical Observatory considers HD 164595 a good candidate for further SETI investigation. Doug Vakoch, president of METI International (based in San Francisco), has said that his research group is ready to observe and monitor HD 164595...
November 2021
The philosophy of space missions today
..., space environmental ethics or the ethics of astrobiology, or even SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) and METI (Messaging Extraterrestrial Intelligence, also known as Active SETI) if extraterrestrial life were to prove to be intelligent...
February 2022
A new legal system for space
.... About the author Mark Beer OBE is a British lawyer and co-founder of Seven Pillars Law, chairman of The Metis Institute and co-founder of the University of Oxford’s Deep Technology Dispute Resolution Lab. He is Chairman of the Board of Trustees...
19 May 2021
Scientists unexpectedly find heavy metal vapour in comets throughout our Solar System, and beyond
... clear what this material might be, advances in astronomy — such as the Mid-infrared ELT Imager and Spectrograph (METIS) on ESO’s upcoming Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) — will allow researchers to confirm the source of the iron and...
23 July 2021
Astronomers detect a disk where exoplanet moons could be forming
... much higher resolution and when used with the ELT's Mid-infrared ELT Imager and Spectrograph (METIS), the team will be able to look at the gas motions surrounding PDS 70c to get a full 3D picture of the...
04 July 2016
ROOM attends the UK National Astronomy Meeting
... development projects to contribute to, on top of the two already planned for integration with the telescope (HARMONI and METIS). The UK community continues to be hugely successful in winning ESO time on various projects compared with the financial...
