{"id":3924277,"date":"2026-03-05T17:03:04","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T22:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/missing-technosignatures-turbulent-plasma-may-blur-ultra-narrow-signals-before-they-leave-their-home-star-systems\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T17:03:04","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T22:03:04","slug":"missing-technosignatures-turbulent-plasma-may-blur-ultra-narrow-signals-before-they-leave-their-home-star-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/missing-technosignatures-turbulent-plasma-may-blur-ultra-narrow-signals-before-they-leave-their-home-star-systems\/","title":{"rendered":"Missing technosignatures? Turbulent plasma may blur ultra-narrow signals before they leave their home star systems"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>A new study by researchers at the SETI Institute suggests that stellar &#8220;space weather&#8221; could make radio signals from extraterrestrial intelligence harder to detect. Stellar activity and plasma turbulence near a transmitting planet can broaden an otherwise ultra-narrow signal, spreading its power across more frequencies and making it more difficult to detect in traditional narrowband searches. The paper is published in The Astrophysical Journal.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-03-technosignatures-turbulent-plasma-blur-ultra.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study by researchers at the SETI Institute suggests that stellar &#8220;space weather&#8221; could make radio signals from extraterrestrial intelligence harder to detect. Stellar activity and plasma turbulence near a transmitting planet can broaden an otherwise ultra-narrow signal, spreading its power across more frequencies and making it more difficult to detect in traditional narrowband [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3924277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3924277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3924277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3924277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3924277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3924277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3924277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}