The history of the famous alien signal, known by the exclamation mark “Blimey!’ possesses a mysterious quality that has inspired countless encounters with aliens in science fiction.
However, its authenticity as coming from the “intellect alien’ has been discussed since that night of August 15, 1977 – 45 years ago – at 03:16 UTC, when the astronomer Jerry Eman used a large radio telescope at Ohio State University to scan the sky for signals that could be from an alien civilization.
That night, Ehman found something. And ever since that night, astronomers have been trying to figure out what it means. Heading in the direction of three star systems called Chi Sagittarius in the constellation Sagittarius, the radio telescope recorded a 72-second burst of radio waves, the signal of which is much stronger than background noise. On the observatory’s computer printout, Ehman marked the recording of the explosion with the note “Blimey!’.
This enthusiasm was not an exaggeration, it was exactly the signal he was looking for, the signal that astronomers consider civilization. alien technologically capable will produce.
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Impression of ‘big The ear, the nickname for the Ohio State University radio telescope, contains a jumble of seemingly random numbers and letters, but Ehman circled the group of numbers “6EQUJ5” with other circles around the number “6” with a red pen and “7”. into separate columns. This particular code first uses the numbers 1-9 and then the alphabet from AZ to indicate signal strength. As the spike suggests, the signal strength reached “6” and then broke through the letters, peaking at “U” before bouncing back up the numerical scale to “5”. Then there was a slight pulsation of the main signal (circled “6” and “7”).
However, from that day in 1977, the signal from this fortress was no longer recorded. Even after the SETI Institute was founded in 1984 and countless efforts were made to find another such burst of radio signal, astronomers were faced with silence in space; a problem that only exacerbated the discomfort of the Fermi paradox.
Skeptical that the signal comes from a distant advanced civilization, Ehman himself recently stated that it could be connected to the mysterious FRB (Fast Radio Burst). Astronomer Antonio Paris from St. Petersburg College in Florida claims that an unregistered comet could be the source of the signal.
To date, neither the origin nor what caused this signal is known exactly, so it will remain in astronomy books as an unsolved mystery. (EuropePress)
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