What is the Source of the Wow! Signal? With Alberto Caballero

What is the Source of the Wow! Signal? With Alberto Caballero

June 7, 2026 · 43 min

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The episode discusses the Wow! Signal and explores its potential origins with guest Alberto Caballero.

Were We Contacted?The Wow! Signal, picked up at the Big Ear radio telescope in 1977 remains unexplained to this day, and represents the best candidate we've ever detected of a signal of intelligent alien origin. Now, Alberto Callabero of the Exoplanets channel has released a new paper, An approximation to determine the source of the WOW! Signal, which surmises possible origins of the Wow! Signal to a sunlike star over 1800 light years away.An approximation to determine the source of the WOW! Signal https://arxiv.org/pdf/2011.06090.pdfExoplanets SETI project:https://exoplanetschannel.wixsite.com/home/setiprojectThe Exoplanets Channel:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdDS4j318UpKjNcpe_LeQxQhttps://youtu.be/DbxH_E8Iy1UThe Wow! Signal with Discoverer Dr. Jerry Ehmanhttps://youtu.be/x67K-Vq1KWkSun-like star identified as the potential source of the Wow! Signalhttps://astronomy.com/news/2020/11/sun-like-star-identified-as-the-potential-source-of-the-wow-signalThe Big Ear Wow! Signal (30th Anniversary Report)http://www.bigear.org/Wow30th/wow30th.htmSETI in the 1970shttp://www.bigear.org/oldseti.htmThe Elusive Wow: Searching for Extraterrestrial IntelligenceRobert H…

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