Episode

1745: "The Wow! Signal"

Podcast: Interesting Things with JC
Published: Aug 15, 2026
Duration seconds: 258
Processing state: not_requested
Canonical source: https://jimconnors.net/interesting-things-with-jc/2026/8/15/1745-the-wow-signal
Audio: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5bba2d6fca525b3efa21591f/t/6a7f89a5746a4e546de1913c/1786743208175/1745+-+Interesting+Things+-+The+Wow%21+Signal.mp3
JSON: /v1/public/podcasts/interesting-things-with-jc-4639155/episodes/1745-the-wow-signal
Markdown: /podcast/interesting-things-with-jc-4639155/1745-the-wow-signal.md

Actions

POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/interesting-things-with-jc-4639155/episodes/1745-the-wow-signal/transcription-requests
Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode.
GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/interesting-things-with-jc-4639155/1745-the-wow-signal.md
Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource.

Summary

Interesting Things with JC #1745: "The Wow! Signal" – A radio telescope in Ohio detected a powerful narrowband signal from the direction of Sagittarius for 72 seconds, matching the rise and fall expected from a fixed source in the sky. The signal vanished before the telescope’s second beam crossed the same region, and nearly fifty years of searches have never detected it again.