Astronomers Have Talked About The Nature Of Recent Strange Signals From Space - Alternative View

Astronomers Have Talked About The Nature Of Recent Strange Signals From Space - Alternative View
Astronomers Have Talked About The Nature Of Recent Strange Signals From Space - Alternative View

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Last week, we reported that very strange signals from space were received by astronomers at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, coming from the direction of a small red dwarf star, and scientists were puzzled by their true nature. And now it seems that researchers have an answer related to the nature of their source. It turns out that these strange signals, apparently, came from the radio transmission of two near-Earth satellites.

For the first time discovered back in May, the scientists were very interested in radio signals. According to one of the versions, they could have been caused by a stellar flash of a distant star, but the radio waves in this case turned out to be of the wrong frequency. Astronomers even then suggested that waves could come from some near-Earth satellites, but the structure of these signals looked as if they had traveled a considerable distance through space until they reached Earth. In general, none of the explanations could perfectly describe the observed phenomenon.

Team Arecibo decided to do another star sighting last Sunday. After analyzing the results obtained and comparing them with the observational data of other institutes and researchers, astronomers came to the conclusion that the signals did not come from deep space, but from one or several satellites circling in the geostationary orbit of our planet. This explains their strange frequency and why they appeared at first glance to be the waves of a distant star.

The star itself, we recall, is called Ross 128 and is located in that part of the sky where geostationary satellites very often fly by. However, this still does not explain why the signals looked like they came to us from interstellar space.

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“Perhaps multiple signal reflections have caused such signatures in their structure. But we will need more time to investigate such a possibility, as well as other probabilities,”the team of astronomers said in a published press release.

But one thing is certain now: they were not aliens. Unfortunately. And maybe fortunately.

Nikolay Khizhnyak

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