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Astronomers uncover the source of the 1977 mysterious signal: it wasn’t aliens

On August 15, 1977, the Big Ear Observatory at Ohio State University detected an unusually intense radio signal. This signal was so distinctive that astronomer Jerry Ehman, who discovered it, circled it in red on the printout and wrote “Wow!” beside it, giving it its iconic name – the “Wow! signal.” For decades, scientists have […]

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