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#Wow signal manual#
#Wow signal code#
Circling the frequency code of the signal, 6EQUJ5, on the computer printout Ehman wrote, "WOW!" causing the alien message to become forever known as "The WOW! Signal." The Big Ear radio telescope at Ohio State University picked up a strong 72-second signal from the constellation Sagittarius, detected by astronomer Jerry R. Per EarthSky, the comets were passing through the region of the sky being surveyed by the Big Ear Radio Observatory on August 15, 1977.August 15th, 1977: Earth received its first message from the depths of outer space. Petersburg College and ex-analyst with Department of Defense (DoD), came forward and stated that two comets, 266P/Christensen (online at NASA) and P/2008 Y2 (Gibbs) ( also online at NASA), most likely generated the Wow! Signal. Unfortunately, three years earlier, in 2017, Antonio Paris, adjunct professor of astronomy at St. It is an identical twin to our Sun, with the same temperature, radius, and luminosity." Caballero's found 66 other candidates as well, but all with weaker evidence.
This star sits in the constellation of Sagittarius at a distance of 1,800 light-years. Caballero told Discover Magazine, "The only potential Sun-like star in all the WOW! Signal region appears to be 2MASS 19281982-2640123. Gaia was enough to inspire Alberto Caballero, an amateur astronomer and creator of the exoplanet exploration YouTube channel " The Exoplanets Channel," who's made actual headway in pinpointing and defining the Wow! Signal.