{"id":787585,"date":"2024-08-21T06:31:56","date_gmt":"2024-08-21T11:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=787585"},"modified":"2024-08-21T06:31:56","modified_gmt":"2024-08-21T11:31:56","slug":"astronomers-might-finally-have-explanation-for-mysterious-wow-signal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=787585","title":{"rendered":"Astronomers might finally have explanation for mysterious Wow! signal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure class=\"ArticleImage\">\n<div class=\"Image__Wrapper\"><\/div><figcaption class=\"ArticleImageCaption\">\n<div class=\"ArticleImageCaption__CaptionWrapper\">\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Title\">The Arecibo telescope in Puerto Rico detected radio signals similar to the Wow! signal<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Credit\">NAIC\/Arecibo Observatory\/NSF<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>An unexplained radio signal detected in 1977 known as the Wow! signal, which some have interpreted as an alien message, may have been the result of a natural galactic laser-like beam.<\/p>\n<p>On 15 August 1977, the Big Ear radio telescope at Ohio State University detected a brief, powerful burst of radio waves with an unusually narrow range of frequencies, similar to atomic hydrogen\u2019s natural emission frequency. No known astronomical processes could have produced such an emission, and astronomer Jerry Ehman, who worked at the\u2026<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2444798-astronomers-might-finally-have-explanation-for-mysterious-wow-signal\/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&#038;utm_source=NSNS&#038;utm_medium=RSS&#038;utm_content=space&#038;rand=772163\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Arecibo telescope in Puerto Rico detected radio signals similar to the Wow! signal NAIC\/Arecibo Observatory\/NSF An unexplained radio signal detected in 1977 known as the Wow! signal, which some&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":787586,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-787585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-scientist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=787585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/787586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=787585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=787585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=787585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}