On February 29th the SETI Institute launched another citizen-science project.

2月29号，寻找地外智慧协会启动了一个新的平民科学项目。

Jill Tarter of the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California.

加州山景城搜寻地外文明研究所（SETI）的吉尔·塔特说到。

The researchers are from the SETI Institute in California. SETI stands for Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence.

这些研究人员来自加利福尼亚州的SETI研究所。SETI是地外文明搜索的简称。

Kaveh Pahlevan is a planetary scientist at the SETI Institute, a nonprofit space research center in California.

卡维·帕列文是芒廷维尤地外理性研究所的一名行星科学家，该研究所是加州的一家非营利性太空研究中心。

That's Andrew Siemion, the director of SETI Institute where they conduct experiments to detect extraterrestrial technology.

那是安德鲁·西蒙， SETI 研究所所长，他们在那里进行实验以检测外星技术。

" The biggest challenge for us in looking for SETI signals is not at this point getting the data, " says Sofia Sheikh, an astronomer at the SETI Institute.

SETI 研究所的天文学家索菲亚·谢赫说：“对我们来说，寻找 SETI 信号的最大挑战不是在这一点上获得数据。”

Mark Showalter of the SETI Institute in Mountain view, California, found it while reviewing archival photographs taken by the Hubble Space Telescope.

加利福尼亚山景城 SETI 研究所的 Mark Showalter 在查看哈勃太空望远镜拍摄的档案照片时发现了它。

" It is a new era for SETI research that is opening up thanks to machine-learning technology, " says Franck Marchis, a planetary astronomer at the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California.

加州山景城 SETI 研究所的行星天文学家弗兰克·马切斯说：“多亏机器学习技术，使得这个时代成为 SETI 研究的一个新时代。”

To do this, the SETI Institute uses an instrument called the Allen Telescope Array—a group of 42 small radio-telescope dishes in California, partly paid for by the eponymous co-founder of Microsoft.

其协会依靠的工具是坐落在加州的艾伦望远镜阵列，它由42个小的射频望远镜组成，因微软的共同创始人提供了部分资金而得名。

" It really helps in the hunting if you know where the prey is located, " says Seth Shostak, an astronomer at the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California.

“如果你知道猎物的位置， 这对狩猎真的很有帮助， ” 加州山景城 SETI 研究所的天文学家 Seth Shostak 说。

To further add to the mystery though, the SETI Institute concluded that whatever material is blocking the light between us and the star is located inside the star's habitable zone, where life like ours would be possible.

再讲一些来进一步增加神秘感，搜寻地外文明计划研究所得出结论，无论是什么物质阻挡了我们与恒星之间的光线，都位于恒星的宜居带内，在那里可能存在着像我们这样的生命。

Skip ahead about 14 years, and I got a—just an email out of nowhere that says, " You know, we're doing the SETI international— the SETI Institute." That's what they call themselves.

快进大约 14 年，我突然收到一封电子邮件，上面写着：“你知道，我们正在开展 SETI 国际行动 - SETI 研究所。”他们就是这么称呼自己的。