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Interstellar Visitor May Be Able to Explain Signal that Came to Earth 48 Years Ago

Astronomers link the 72-second 1977 WOW signal to interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, noting only a 0.6% chance of random sky alignment, suggesting a natural origin for the burst.

Summary by Metro News
In 1977, a radio telescope detected a 72-second radio burst from space. The telescope was from Ohio State University’s Big Ear radio telescope, and it received an unusually strong narrowband radio signal. This led to a ripple of excitement in the scientific community about the possibility of having encountered evidence of life beyond Earth. At the time, astronomer Jerry Ehman spotted the burst, and annotated the major radio band fluctuation with…

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Vice broke the news in New York, United States on Sunday, October 5, 2025.
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