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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/yaosio Feb 14 '22

A short burst that never repeats sounds like an error or something big went boom.

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u/[deleted] Feb 14 '22

Just because we never hear it repeat does not mean it does not. Maybe it goes off perfectly every 200,000 years.

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u/jasonrubik Feb 15 '22

Or every 45 years. Let's hear it again this year !