The 72-Second Mystery of the "Wow! Signal" 📡🌌 The universe is talking, but are we listening? 🌌✨📡 For decades, we have been picking up strange, powerful radio signals from the deepest corners of space. Some are explained by science, but others remain a total mystery. The Legendary "Wow! Signal": In 1977, a telescope picked up a transmission so strong that the astronomer who saw the data circled it and wrote "Wow!" in the margin. It was 30 times louder than the normal noise of space and lasted

A fast radio burst detected in 2024 was recently traced back to an orbiting satellite that's been dead and silent for decades. What caused the signal? Spo explains. Read more: https://www.sciencealert.com/mysterious-radio-signal-caught-bursting-from-long-dead-nasa-satellite #space #fastradiobursts #spacesignals | ScienceAlert

🚨 Brightest Fast Radio Burst Ever Detected 🚨 In March 2025, CHIME’s new Outrigger array caught FRB 20250316A — a millisecond flash of radio energy so powerful it briefly broke detection systems. Astronomers traced it with record precision to galaxy NGC 4141, 130 million light years away. #FRB #Astronomy #Space #AboveTheNormNews | Above The Norm News

Dura qualche millesimo di secondo, è potentissimo… ma non abbiamo ancora ben capito di cosa si tratti. La prossima lettera dell’alfabeto cosmico è la F di... fast radio burst! Un fast radio burst, o lampo radio veloce, è un brevissimo segnale cosmico ricevuto nelle onde radio, quasi esclusivamente da sorgenti al di fuori della nostra galassia. Scopri di più su questi oggetti nel nuovo episodio di “L’universo alla lettera”, l'alfabeto cosmico a cura dell’Istituto nazionale di astrofisica dedicato