{"id":256000,"date":"2024-08-21T15:42:04","date_gmt":"2024-08-21T15:42:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/21\/astronomers-might-finally-have-explanation-for-mysterious-wow-signal\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:11:58","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:11:58","slug":"astronomers-might-finally-have-explanation-for-mysterious-wow-signal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/21\/astronomers-might-finally-have-explanation-for-mysterious-wow-signal\/","title":{"rendered":"Astronomers might finally have explanation for mysterious Wow! signal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure class=\"ArticleImage\">\n<div class=\"Image__Wrapper\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"Image\" width=\"1350\" height=\"900\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/21113241\/SEI_218106150.jpg\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1288px) 837px, (min-width: 1024px) calc(57.5vw + 55px), (min-width: 415px) calc(100vw - 40px), calc(70vw + 74px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/21113241\/SEI_218106150.jpg?width=300 300w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/21113241\/SEI_218106150.jpg?width=400 400w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/21113241\/SEI_218106150.jpg?width=500 500w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/21113241\/SEI_218106150.jpg?width=600 600w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/21113241\/SEI_218106150.jpg?width=700 700w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/21113241\/SEI_218106150.jpg?width=800 800w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/21113241\/SEI_218106150.jpg?width=837 837w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/21113241\/SEI_218106150.jpg?width=900 900w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/21113241\/SEI_218106150.jpg?width=1003 1003w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/21113241\/SEI_218106150.jpg?width=1100 1100w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/21113241\/SEI_218106150.jpg?width=1200 1200w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/21113241\/SEI_218106150.jpg?width=1300 1300w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/21113241\/SEI_218106150.jpg?width=1400 1400w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/21113241\/SEI_218106150.jpg?width=1500 1500w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/21113241\/SEI_218106150.jpg?width=1600 1600w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/21113241\/SEI_218106150.jpg?width=1674 1674w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/21113241\/SEI_218106150.jpg?width=1700 1700w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/21113241\/SEI_218106150.jpg?width=1800 1800w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/21113241\/SEI_218106150.jpg?width=1900 1900w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/21113241\/SEI_218106150.jpg?width=2006 2006w\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-image-context=\"Article\" data-image-id=\"2444826\" data-caption=\"The Arecibo telescope in Puerto Rico detected radio signals similar to the Wow! signal\" data-credit=\"NAIC\/Arecibo Observatory\/NSF\"\/><\/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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/dn28747-famous-wow-signal-might-have-been-from-comets-not-aliens\/\">Wow! signal<\/a>, which some have interpreted as an alien message, may have been the result of a natural galactic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg20927974-100-maser-to-predict-milky-ways-fate\/\">laser-like beam.<\/a><\/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>[ad_2]<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=home\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] 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<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":256001,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256000"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}