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Observing Everything, Everywhere, All At Once with Chenoa Tremblay

SETI scientists observe more stars more often with the Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope’s mega-computer network, the Commensal Open Source Multimode Interferomic Cluster (COSMIC). Collecting data alongside the VLA’s standard radio astronomy operations, COSMIC surveys hundreds of thousands of stars over a wide range of frequencies as compared to previous SETI surveys that searched only a few thousand stars at confined radio frequencies. We spoke to Chenoa Tremblay, COSMIC’s project scientist, about her circuitous career, from accountant to chemist to SETI scientist and the likelihood of finding ET.

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