Mysterious Repeating Fast Radio Burst Traced to Very Unexpected Location

A fast radio burst’s unlikely source may be a cluster of old stars

How fast we are hurdling through space. Sorry if this has been posted before.

“China has been very interested in the question ‘are we alone?’ For a long time,” says Dan Werthimer of the University of CA, Berkeley. “But until recently there have been few people working on SETI in China.” FAST, now the world’s most powerful radio telescope, could make China the leader in SETI.