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Within Vinony's link graph, Wow! signal is referenced by 580 other articles, and connects out to search for extra-terrestrial intelligence, Eastern Time Zone and scintillation.
It sits within the topics 1977 in Ohio, 1977 in science and August 1977 in the United States.
Its subject is documented across 44 Wikipedia language editions.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- signal
- Duration
- 72
- Image
- Wow signal.jpg
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- Commons category
- Wow! signal
- point in time
- 1977-08-15
- different from
- Oh-My-God particle
- time of discovery or invention
- 1977-08-15
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Encyclopedic overview
The Wow! signal represented as "6EQUJ5". The original printout with Ehman's handwritten exclamation is preserved by Ohio History Connection.
The Wow! signal was a strong narrowband radio signal detected 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 direction of the constellation Sagittarius and bore expected hallmarks of extraterrestrial origin.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Wow! signal” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.