Wow! signal | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-05-07

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wow!_signal


00:01:16 1 Background
00:03:08 2 Signal measurement
00:04:51 2.1 Frequency
00:06:32 2.2 Time variation
00:07:32 2.3 Bandwidth
00:08:08 3 Celestial location
00:09:26 4 Hypotheses on the signal's origin
00:13:00 5 Searches for recurrence of the signal
00:14:41 6 Response
00:15:48 7 In popular culture
00:17:01 8 See also



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The Wow! signal was a strong narrowband radio signal received on August 15, 1977, by Ohio State University's Big Ear radio telescope in the United States, then used to support the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. The signal appeared to come from the constellation Sagittarius and bore the expected hallmarks of extraterrestrial origin.
Astronomer Jerry R. Ehman discovered the anomaly a few days later while reviewing the recorded data. He was so impressed by the result that he circled the reading on the computer printout and wrote the comment Wow! on its side, leading to the event's widely used name.The entire signal sequence lasted for the full 72-second window during which Big Ear was able to observe it, but has not been detected since, despite several subsequent attempts by Ehman and others. Many hypotheses have been advanced on the origin of the emission, including natural and man-made sources, but none of them adequately explains the result. The Wow! signal remains the strongest candidate for an alien radio transmission ever detected.