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  • A picture of a neutron star, which gives off pulsars. (NASA, Wikimedia Commons)
    The Galactic Positioning System
    Paul Patton
    In 1967 a team of astronomers in Great Britain thought they had found extraterrestrial intelligence. They discovered radio sources in deep space that produced pulses of energy at very precise intervals ranging from milliseconds to seconds.