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This chapter discusses the “Wow! signal” detected on August 15, 1977 by the Ohio State University Radio Observatory (OSURO) radio telescope (often called the “Big Ear”). Let’s start with some history of OSURO prior to that detection.
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Ehman, J.R. (2011). “Wow!” - A Tantalizing Candidate. In: Searching for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. The Frontiers Collection. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-13196-7_4
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