Friday 7 December 2018

The 40-Year Old Mystery of the “Wow!” Signal Was Just Solved

The 40-Year Old Mystery of the “Wow!” Signal Was Just Solved

In 1977, the sound of extraterrestrials was heard by human ears for the first time — or so people at the time thought. The Wow! Signal was detected by astronomer Jerry Ehman using Ohio State University’s Big Ear radio telescope. It is a radio signal detector that, at the time, was pointed at a group of stars called Chi Sagittarii in the constellation Sagittarius.

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