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Astrophysicists May Have Found the Source of Mysterious Wow Signal


The signal, recorded in 1977, was at first suspected to be an alien transmission.

(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. Abel Méndez, associate professor of physics and astrobiology at the University of Puerto Rico, who led the study, admits that he only began diving deep into the Wow! Méndez and his team will run follow-up observations using the Very Large Telescope in Chile to identify the exact clouds behind the signals found in the archived data.

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