Astrophysicist Jocelyn Bell Burnell recount her discovery of the first pulsar as a postgraduate student at Cambridge University in 1967.

The animated pulses featured at the start of the video are based on actual data from the first recorded pulsar. The data was collected by the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico in 1968 and later used by radio astronomer Harold Craft to create the plotted visualization seen in the video. Craft's image later gained notoriety when, in 1979, the English rock band Joy Division used it as cover art for their debut album, Unknown Pleasures. For artistic reasons, the pulses in the video are animated in reverse order.

The Square Kilometer Array, an interferometer to be constructed in South Africa and Australia, could be sensitive enough to detect the faint radio signature of an earthlike civilization up to ~650 lightyears away from Earth.

This paper suggest the famous Wow! Signal detected in 1977 was caused by a passing comet.

The first discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a Sun-like star.

This paper examines the probability of an alien astronomer detecting a planet in the Solar System using the transit method.

In 2017, an interstellar message consisting of musical compositions and other material was beamed towards exoplanet Luyten b (GJ273b). It is one of the least distant and most earthlike exoplanets discovered to date.

Information about GJ 273b (Luyten b).

A fantastic article about the use of astronomical spectroscopy to study exoplanetary atmospheres.

As the Galileo spacecraft flew past the Earth in 1990, it successfully detected various signs of life.

While an oxygen-rich atmosphere could be a sign of life, this paper demonstrates how large amounts of oxygen could be generated through abiogenic processes.

This paper demonstrates how an exoplanet surrounded by a dense orbital belt of artificial satellites or space debris could be detected during transit of its parent star.

The peculiar dimming of this star could hypothetically be the result of a circumstellar megastructure or Dyson sphere.

The peculiar dimming of this star resembles that of KIC 8462852.

This is the paper in which Freeman Dyson popularized the idea of circumstellar megastructures, now know as a Dyson sphere.

This is the paper in which Nikolai Kardashev proposed a method of categorizing extraterrestrial civilizations based on their energy consumption, now known as the Kardashev scale.

These three complimentary papers detail the search and failure to detect the expected technosignature of a Type III civilization in 100,000 nearby galaxies.

A firsthand account of the lunchroom conversation which prompted physicist Enrico Fermi to ponder the absence of extraterrestrials.

A great book about the numerous hypothetical solutions to the Fermi Paradox.

This paper estimate that roughly 10,000 extrasolar objects, 100 meters in size, populate the Solar System at any given moment.

This paper was the first to report on the acceleration of 'Oumuamua.

This paper gained a lot of media attention as the authors entertain the possibility of 'Oumuamua being an interstellar probe. More specifically, a probe using a light sail as a means of propulsion.

While 'Oumuamua is thought to be a highly elongated cigar-shaped object, the findings of this study suggest it could also be a pancake-shaped oblate spheroid.