The 72-second signal that made scientists ask: "Are We Alone?"

Описание: In 1977, a strange radio signal burst out of deep space and was never heard again. Known as the "Wow! Signal", it came from a massive Ohio radio telescope and looked eerily like something intelligent.
Was it aliens? A cosmic coincidence? Or something we still don't understand?
From a red-circled printout to one of the greatest mysteries in astronomy, this is the story of the signal that made scientists stop and say... WOW!
Decades later, we're still asking the same question: Is there anyone out there?

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Ohio State University radio telescope, dated 1953
Courtesy: Columbus Citizen, Grandview Heights Public Library, Columbus Citizen Journal and Columbus Citizen Newspapers Collection

Alien face and 1970's computer, AI generated

Ultra Deep Field
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Credit: NASA/ESA
Image Number: GSFC_20171208_Archive_e001061
Date: July 30, 2015

A Grazing Encounter Between Two Spiral Galaxies
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Credit: NASA and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI)
Image Number: PR99-41
Release Date: November 4, 1999

Radio telescope under bright starry sky, free stock photo
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A Swarm of Ancient Stars
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Credit: The Hubble Heritage Team (AURA/STScI/NASA)
Image Number:PR99-26
Release Date: July 1, 1999

A model that computes the fraction of the 'haystack' that SETI programs have collectively examined, public domain
https://phys.org/news/2018-09-fractio...

Applications Technology Satellite Test
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Credit: NASA
Image Number: S73-34033
Date: September 30, 1973

STS-09
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Credit: NASA
Image Number: s09-11-675
Date: November 28, 1983

NASA photos, public domain
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The Big Ear and WOW! Signal printout
Photos from the Historical Marker of the former Big Ear site located at the Delaware Golf Club in Delaware, Ohio
https://www.bigear.org/ohsmarkr/BigEa...


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