Trevor Collins

And so that kind of

throws this whole theory out with the bathwater in the first place like we can measure it when it comes back around but if they weren't even in the sky where big ear was looking when the signal was picked up it's not even really worth measuring because then it wouldn't have been these comments yeah others have reported that the big ear team itself have dismissed this theory citing that comets do not emit strong enough frequencies which casually does make sense i mean

You don't need to know a whole lot about electromagnetism, but yes, signals come from planets, stars, crazy things like pulsars and comets.

But comets are going to put out such little frequency.

I can't fully tell you just how strong the signal is.

I can't.

30 times background noise.

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?