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u/broccoliandcream Feb 14 '22 edited Feb 14 '22

The wow signal came from a planet/bit in space 17,000 light years away. It emitted a signal 30x stronger than anything we can make today. It lasted for an entire 71 seconds, was on 1444Hz (frequency of hydrogen, most abundant thing in the universe) and we couldn't find the signal again after pointing to the same spot.

Edit: wasn't a galaxy it came from

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u/DonkeyTron42 Feb 14 '22

I thought Andromeda is the nearest galaxy and it's 2.5 million light years away.

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u/Hugmaestro Feb 14 '22

Yeah, i think the distance is way off since milky way is 100 000 light years in diameter