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(CNN)Astronomers engaged in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) are training their instruments on a star around 94 light years from Earth after a very strong signal was detected by a Russian telescope.

An international team of researchers is now examining the radio signal and its star, HD 164595 -- described in a paper by Italian astronomer Claudio Maccone and others as a "strong candidate for SETI" -- in the hopes of determining its origin.
"The signal from HD 164595 is intriguing, because it comes from the vicinity of a sun-like star, and if it's artificial, its strength is great enough that it was clearly made by a civilization with capabilities beyond those of humankind," astronomer Douglas Vakoch, president of METI International, which searches for life beyond Earth, tells CNN.
Advanced civilization?
Paul Gilster of the Tau Zero Foundation, which conducts interstellar research, said that if the signal was artificial, its strength suggested it would have to come from a civilization more advanced than our own.
Such a civilization would likely be Type II on the Kardashev scale, an attempt by the Soviet astronomer of the same name to categorize various technological stages of civilizations.
At present, our own species is somewhere near Type I on the scale, whereby a civilization is able to harness all the energy available to it on its own planet, including solar, wind, earthquakes, and other fuels.
Dyson swarm (pictured) or Dyson spheres are proposed technologies for capturing all energy emitted by a star.
Dyson swarm (pictured) or Dyson spheres are proposed technologies for capturing all energy emitted by a star.
A Type II civilization would be able to harness the entirety of the energy emitted by its star, billions of billions of watts.
Doing so would require a colossal undertaking, likely the construction of some kind of superstructure, such as a giant sphere or swarm of super-advanced solar panels popularized by astronomer Freeman Dyson that could catch and store all radiation put out by the sun.
Scientists believe superstructures are probably our best chance of detecting alien life unless they are actively trying to communicate with us.
A Dyson sphere was one of the solutions suggested to the peculiar light fluctuations detected around Tabby's Star, which caused great excitement when they were detected last year.
Dimming star remains mystery, but it's likely not caused by comets

Quote (card_sultan @ Aug 30 2016 02:53pm)

94 light years away you say? - sounds like your being feed "plausible"

Quote (card_sultan @ Aug 30 2016 08:53am)

94 light years away you say? - sounds like your being feed "plausible" sci-fi.
What is the proof that light can even travel a measly million miles - surely there must be some proof of it and not merely dogmatic astro priest theory that you have 100% faith in?
Wait i know why you think that - because you were told that sun is 93 million miles away but didn't Eratosthenes have to assume the sun was that far away to say the Earth is round - there's a name for that - we call it circular logic and you can see why.
So wouldn't that make your entire view of reality based on a 2500 year old pure assumption from a guy whose nickname was "Beta"? Thats must suck. But I guess that's science for you.

Quote (kalelvszod @ Aug 30 2016 08:49am)

This a joke?

Quote (Sakuraba @ Aug 30 2016 07:51am)

he's a joke, yeah
he's a flat earther retard

Quote (MultiMulti @ Aug 30 2016 12:02pm)

He is an idiot, could not answer like 90% of my questions about his flat Earth theory. I wish I could just not see any of his posts. He says the world is flat but can not explain the seasons, time zones or the fact many people have sailed the entire planet. I know people worldwide the world is definitely round there is no end. All other planets we observe are round why would ours be flat. He is utterly retarded