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SETI Institute's privately funded Project Phoenix begins

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The Parkes radio telescope dish with the Moon behind it
The Parkes radio telescope, where Project Phoenix began its privately funded search in 1995 division, CSIRO, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

After Congress ended NASA's SETI program in 1993, the SETI Institute continued its targeted search with private donations as Project Phoenix, starting at the Parkes telescope. Through 2004 it examined about 800 nearby stars and reported no extraterrestrial signals.

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  1. FirsthandProject PhoenixSETI Institute
  2. FirsthandProject PhoenixJodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics, University of Manchester

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