At 9.45pm on Saturday night, like a giant ear cocking to the heavens, the massive telescope at the Green Bank Observatory in West Virginia tilted towards the first of a series of stars about 20 light years away, with an orbiting planet that might support another civilisation.
“The stars rise and set,” said Steve Croft, an astronomer overseeing its progress. “It’ll slew to that target, take some data on it and then, once it’s got that one in the can, it picks the next one out of the list.”
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