It was in 1977 that a mysterious radio sign was detected in the United States. For decades it has been speculated about the origin of the sign-and many had to attribute it to extraterrestrial communication. Now, an invertScientific stage brings new light to the case.
Became known as the “Signal Wow! And it was uthe event that took place almost half a century ago and that left more questions ofwhat answers. One of the great hopes of those who believed in life outside the earth. We talk about a mysterious (e fortvery much) radio signal, detected nAugust 15, 1977. And now it may be close to being explained.
The signal was captured by the radiotelescope Big Ear, The Observatory Radio of the State University of Ohio, in the United States of America. And at the time, I considered-If the hypothesis was a attempted communication by extraterrestrials.
O “Wow! It was, on a summer day of 1977, detected by the astronomer Jerry Ehmanthat, marveling at the dimension of the discovery, wrote “Wow! in the document with the data from the signalthus giving the phenomenon the name by which it would be known.
Now, 48 years old, scientists claim that the force of the signal was much greater than it was thought. E They believe they have discovered explanation to OmRom: spoiler alert – Nothing teon it to do with aliens.
The project “Arecibo Wow!”
“What fIzemos he was Look at old files with modern scientific methodologiesa little as space archeology, ”explained the researcher Héctor Socas-Navarrowhich is facingmub director and Foundation European do Telescope Solar, quoted for the .
They were analyzed tens of thousands of Original signal data pagesthrough an optical character recognition system. Thanks to this computed analysis Never before made, the scientists have managed to delimit the part of the space from which the sign may have come and show that this it was significantly greater than what had been calculated.
Signal will have “natural astronomical origin”
These discoveries come exclude the hypothesis that the signal have human origin – Since, at that time, there were no satellites or TV signs that could cause the type of registered waves – And also that it had been caused by an internal software error.
The signal will have, believe the researchers, astronomical origin – and not extraterrestrial origin.
The hypothesis is raised that the signal was caused by a sudden glow of the hydrogen line in the interstellar cloudstriggered by a powerful source of radiationsuch as an eruption or gamma rays.
“Our analysis brings arguments to the hypothesis of the sign Wow! have an astrophysical origin naturale not to beltriggered with a radio interference ”the scientists claim.
Emphasizing that it is necessary to continue the research work, the researchers notice that the recent discoveries bring more accurate calculations to date “on the location, intensity and frequency of the signal Wow! and offer a new way to identify the origin ” phenomenon.
They wait within two years in 2027, to launch the data from the entire file of the telescope Big Earwhich initially captured the sign, to mark the 50th anniversary of the same.
