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Astrophysicists May Have Found the Source of Mysterious Wow Signal

• cdchn 2y ago
  >The researchers behind the AWOW project wanted to see if another, similar signal could be found, so they looked over data gathered by the Arecibo telescope from 2017 to 2020. Up until the year the telescope collapsed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joLYVix5DLU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joLYVix5DLU
• woleium 2y ago
  “Using archived data from the former Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, the Arecibo Wow! (AWOW) project uncovered similar data that suggest the 47-year-old radio signal was the result of a rare event that caused a massive cloud of hydrogen to shine super brightly. A paper describing the results will soon be submitted for peer review with a scientific journal, the team’s project page states.”
• fmobus 2y ago
  The article takes about 5 paragraphs to say it's magnetars exciting a hydrogen cloud. Lot of fluff to get to the content these days. AI slop is ruining everything