NASA Proposes 'Beacon in the Galaxy': An Updated Interstellar Message to Share Humanity's Story

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Jonathan H. Jiang of NASA's JPL outlines a "Beacon in the Galaxy" plan to broadcast a bitmap message with more math, science, a map of Earth, and an invitation to reply, targeted to a region about 13,000 light-years from the center (per Gizmodo's George Dvorsky) and beamed from the Allen Telescope Array or FAST around March 30 or October 4, while Stephen Hawking warned of potential dangers and the plan is not yet peer-reviewed.