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Arecibo message beamed toward the M13 star cluster

Name: Arecibo message beamed toward the M13 star cluster
Start: 1974
Location: Arecibo, Puerto Rico

When: 1974
Where: Arecibo, Puerto Rico
Sources: 1 public source

The 1,679-bit Arecibo message beamed toward the M13 cluster in 1974, shown as a picture Arne Nordmann ( norro ), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

At a ceremony marking an upgrade of the Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico, scientists beamed a short pictorial radio message toward the globular cluster M13, about 21,000 light-years away. The SETI Institute notes a reply is unlikely ever to come.

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OtherArecibo Message (opens in a new tab)SETI Institute

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