The legendary WOW! signal from 1977 - the most famous potential alien signal of all time - may finally have found an explanation! Scientists have discovered signals in the latest data from the Arecibo telescope that are astonishingly similar to the Wow! signal. But before you raise the intergalactic shields: These signals do not come from aliens ... but from an ice-cold hydrogen cloud! This cosmic cloud was excited by the radiation of a magnetar, an extremely powerful neutron star. Magnetars have the most powerful magnetic fields in the universe - so strong that they would erase all the world's credit cards within a radius of 1000 kilometers and probably destroy life on Earth! In this video I explain to you how the Wow! signal actually came about and what role the fascinating "maser emission" plays in it. Nature has left us a mystery full of cosmic physics that is at least as exciting as the idea of extraterrestrial signals. And maybe - just maybe - aliens use such cosmic lasers for their communication. Stay tuned to find out the full story behind this incredible discovery!
Translated from German - Original: • WOW!-Signal ist wieder da?! Neue Entd...
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Sources:
arxiv.org/abs/2408.08513
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