Narrowing the search for intelligent life

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The first alien civilizations to notice a little water-bearing planet at the right distance from a small yellow star on an outer arm of the Milky Way galaxy might try to contact us.

If they do, scientists now say they know where the signal will originate ? or at least which part of the sky to watch.

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