The Wow! Signal: A Cosmic Mystery

The Wow! Signal – A Message from Space? In 1977, a radio telescope

in Ohio picked up a signal that still can’t be explained. On August 15, the Big Ear telescope

at Ohio State University detected a strange, powerful signal from deep space. The astronomer who

found it wrote “Wow!” beside the data. It lasted 72 seconds, and scientists still don’t know where

it came from, or if it was from an intelligent source. Despite years of searching,

no one’s ever detected a similar signal again. Some think it was from another galaxy,

others say it was a natural cosmic event. The Wow! Signal remains one

of space’s greatest mysteries — a moment we were a little closer to answering the question: “Are