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New Study Offers Plausible Explanation for 1977's Mysterious 'Wow! Signal'

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Magnetars could zap clouds of atomic hydrogen, producing focused microwave beams.

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It was 23:16 hours on August 15, 1977. At the Ohio University Radio Observatory, a radio telescope popularly known as the Big Ear, everything was quiet. But just then, and for 72 endless seconds, a radio signal of unknown origin arrived from space. It came from somewhere in the eastern part of the Sagittarius constellation and reached an intensity 30 times greater than that of simple background noise. No one, ever, had seen anything like it. Acc…

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