Someone San Diego Should Know: Shelley Wright

Shelley Wright, a professor at UC San Diego, is a modern-day explorer. Instead of travelling oceans searching for new lands, she searches deep space for evidence of life. Instead of crews sailing ships, Wright leads a lab team of scientists, engineers and students using telescopes. Wright and her team have invented four new instruments, including a panoramic telescope system known as PANOSETI that takes images of space looking for unusual light that could be extraterrestrial communications, otherwise known as technosignatures. Other telescope systems searching for extraterrestrial communications look for signals from one star at a time. Yet, as Wright pointed […]