Trevor Collins

That's gnarly.

And I think on that note, too, you would find that if you did measure the comet, it wouldn't be on such a very specific band.

Like, why was it captured by one telescope on one frequency, but not other telescopes and on a more frequency burst?

Like it should be maybe on a wider array because comets aren't just solid hydrogen.

Often there's iron, there's nickel, there's water, there's other gases emanating from the thing.

But moving on, there's so many other theories that are very, very fascinating.

In 2020, amateur astronomer Alberto Caballero hypothesized that the signal came from a sun-like star.

Using data from the European Space Agency's Gaia Space Observatory, he believed...

that the star there's a star named by another scientist and it gets more gnarly okay so this star is named the number two mass 19281982-2640123 okay

we're just going to call it two mass, that this star has a possible explanation for the source of the wow signal.

This star is 1800 light years from Earth, so it's not super far away in the grand scheme of things.

It's not hyper close either.

It's not Alpha Centauri, right?

But Caballero cites that the star has the same temperature

radius and luminosity as our own sun, making it a likely source.

However, this theory does not seem to be widely accepted or even acknowledged by many other astronomers.

I think what's interesting about this theory is that it kind of just says there's a star right there, kind of where the signal came from.

I think it's just that.

Again, it doesn't talk about the signal strength, the intensity, the fact that when we look at that star now, we're not picking up that same level of intensity.

So it's, it's a thin answer, but we, again, oh man, there's so much more.