The “Wow!” that was left on the data sheet back then. Word markers.
A foreign amateur astronomer and YouTuber recently analyzed a famous and mysterious outer space signal discovered by an American astronomer 43 years ago.
A team of astronomers from Ohio State University captured a strong but intermittent outer space radio signal in 1977 at the Big Ears Radio Observatory, and member Jerry Ehman, after ruling out the possibility that it came from a satellite, excitedly marked the signal on a piece of data paper. “Wow!” The word “WOW” has since become known as the “wow signal”. For many years, however, no one has been able to trace or explain the source of these signals, so it was thought that only extraterrestrial intelligence could send out these strange signals.
Until recently, Alberto Caballero, founder of the YouTube channel Extraterrestrial, hypothesized that if the source of the signal was a life form, it would most likely live on an Earth-like planet orbiting a sun-like star. He then searched the European Space Agency’s database and found, in the region where the “wow signal” appeared, a star that had never been seen before, 1,800 light-years away, with a surface temperature, radius, and luminosity almost identical to that of the Sun, in line with his hypothesis.
It is not yet clear if there are planets around the star, but it is the only one found that could be related to the “wow signal”. According to Caballero, scientists should continue to search for exoplanets in the region and listen to specific radio frequencies to determine the exact source of the “wow signal”. The research paper has been published on the website “arXiv”.
Caballero (small picture) found a conceptual map of the star associated with the signal. Caballero (small picture) discovers the stellar conceptual map of the signal.
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