Wow! Signal Mystery Solved After 37 Years, Sorry Not Aliens

Hello and welcome! My name is Anton and in this video, we will talk about the solution to an old mystery: The Wow! Signal
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#wowsignal #aliens #extraterrestrial

0:00 Radio astronomy and search for extraterrestrial intelligence
1:20 Hydrogen line and alien communication
2:03 Detection of Wow! signal
3:40 What the signal actually shows
5:20 Technosignature search
5:55 Cometary explanation
6:15 New proposition that makes a lot of sense
7:30 Bizarre new wow like signals
8:00 New explanation
9:50 What this means for us
11:10 Other masers

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[JTSuter]

This is one of the purest, most consistently informative, no BS channels on YouTube. Been watching for years. Thank you!

[Raven]

If they ever do find aliens I think Anton should be the one to announce it.

[dcahodl]

A hundred years from now the Vogon Constructor Fleet arrives: "Did you get our message about the hyperspatial express route we're building through your solar system?"

[T.efpunkt]

Someone needs to make a video of all the times anton says "sorry, not aliens"

[oberonpanopticon]

DANGIT! I had “New Wow! Signal” on my 2024 bingo card, I should’ve gone for “Wow! Signal explained”

[philochristos]

I wish there could be an afterlife in which you get to explore the universe as a ghost. Since you'd be an immaterial ghost, you wouldn't be limited to the laws of physics, so you could travel at any speed you wanted and be able to go anywhere without worrying about radiation exposure or being hit by astroids. You'd be able to explore gazillions of solar systems at various stages of their life, see how things were at the very beginning and how they are toward the end. You'd have all the time in the world. You'd be able to find out what kind of life is out there, how common it is, etc. You'd be able to look inside a black hole, and be right up close to a supernovae. There would be no end to the worlds you could explore and the things you could learn and observe.

[qualiacontrol]

1:25 I love how he's pointing at the word "ass"

[MyraSeavy]

It's nice to finally get answers to some of our mysteries! Good going Anton 👏🎉😊

[ThioJoe]

Fell to my knees when I saw that title 😫😔

[martinwyke]

I don't think the 'no modulation' can be asserted because the sampling rate was extremely low, only that 'no modulation' was found.

[mongoosegang]

I really appreciate you not having click baits in your title.

[andrewduncan]

WoW! Finally an answer to this former mystery. Thanks for passing that along Anton.

[YourLocalSingularity]

Thanks for the follow-up..!
I've always wondered about the WoW! Signal.
I've always believed strongly that
"we are not alone, "
Especially in light of the recent publication of a map of the observable universe.
It's highly improbable that no other life exists beyond our own.
I'm not an "alien" fanatic but have a realistic approach to this most likely of all things

[noelstarchild]

Pretty sure Baron Harkonnen was attacking Arakus at the time and missed. Sadly the ricochet hit Earth and in our ignorance we said "Wow!"

Joking aside, thanks Anton, appreciate your perspectives.

[ckyung]

This stuff fascinates me. I love his delivery and no fluff BS while simplifying the sciency stuff for the masses. But my favorite video of his has nothing to do with science, astronomy, or cosmology; it was an April fool’s day upload (a couple years ago) which was a fun parody of mukbang featuring noodles, the history of noodles, etc., and it was actually very informative.

[AltGrendel]

“We’ve been trying to contact you about the warranty on your spaceship.”

[AndrewJohnson-oyoj]

People who want a specific answer are disappointed by having mysteries solved. Those who want *any* answer are excited by having mysteries solved.

[GLUBSCHI]

This really makes me happy, knowing that we didn't miss an alien signal

[MacVerick]

I wonder if in the future there will be YouTubers reporting about how certain things we thought were astronomical events were indeed aliens.

[jeffmccrea]

When I was a kid, my parents used to go right to a slaughterhouse and buy a half cow twice a year. My mother had trouble chewing so when we got ready to stuff our upright freezer with beef, she would take the most tender cuts and write "MOM" on the butcher paper wrapper with a magic marker so that we knew that it was reserved for her. My brother came home from college on a break once. He got into the freezer for something to eat and he pulled out one of these marked packages and asked what's this package marked "WOW"? Our mother told him that it's upside down and marked "MOM".