Episode
Message from Outer Space: The Wow! Signal
- Podcast
- Echoes of the Unknown
- Published
- Jan 13, 2026
- Duration seconds
- 1240
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Summary
In today's episode, we're traveling back to 1977, when a radio telescope in Ohio captured a mysterious signal that has captivated astronomers and skywatchers for decades. Known as the Wow! Signal, it was a brief burst of radio waves from the cosmos that still remains unexplained to this day.