THE WOW SIGNAL 📡 | The 72 Seconds that Broke the Great Silence: an extraterrestrial message?

On August 15, 1977, the Big Ear radio telescope captured what has been dubbed the "WOW! Signal." The observatory detected something from the depths of the galaxy. A 72-second radio signal with unprecedented intensity and characteristics that did not match any known astronomical phenomenon. WOW had all the traits that, in an ideal scenario, would be expected for an attempt at communication by an intelligent extraterrestrial civilization.

The discovery triggered a media frenzy worldwide. The press covered the story, and dozens of other radio telescopes tried to capture that whisper again, with the leaders of SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) hoping that we had found the evidence they had been seeking for years. But after more than a hundred days of patrolling the region of the sky where it originated, all they found was silence. The WOW Signal never reappeared.

Today, almost fifty years later, it remains our best candidate for a radio transmission from another form of life in our galaxy, but we never had all the evidence to justify such an extraordinary claim. Thus, many theories, which have simultaneously brought us closer to and farther from the truth, have attempted to explain its natural origin. Pulsars, quasars, supernovae, magnetars, kilonovae, and even something as close as a comet are the hypotheses that have tried, without the expected success, to solve the mystery of the WOW Signal. This is the story of the whisper that broke the silence of the Universe.

💸💸💸 Ways of supporting the content:

🅿 | PayPal: paypal.me/polbertran96
🟠 | Patreon:   / polbertran  

CHAPTERS:

00:00 - Chapter I: The Dreams of Big Ear
14:08 - Chapter II: 6EQUJ5
24:22 - Chapter III: An Enigma Lost in Silence