OTD In Space – Nov 16: Arecibo Observatory Broadcasts Interstellar Message

.On Nov 16, 1974, people sent their initial message to the celebrities in an attempt to get in touch with space beings. They did this using what was after that the largest broadcast telescope on earth, found at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico. A group of researchers led by Frank Drake and also Carl Sagan delivered their information to the M13 star cluster.

The message was actually written in binary code and also included information concerning individual DNA. It additionally included figures of an individual, the solar system and the Arecibo telescope. The suggestion was that if any sort of aliens were to acquire the signal and figure out exactly how to translate it, they will recognize where it came from.

Due to the fact that M13 is 25,000 light-years away, it will take 25,000 years for any kind of M13 invaders to hear our information– if they are flatten there. The Arecibo message is actually only one of a number of messages wanted for extraterrestrials. Our experts have actually also consisted of notifications on numerous space probe, including Leader as well as Voyager.