In 1967, astronomers thought they had finally heard from the neighbors. They intercepted a signal so regular and precise it seemed impossible for it to be natural. But the excitement didn’t last.
When astronomers first picked up a perfectly regular radio heartbeat from deep space in 1967, some of them half-jokingly labeled it a message from “little green men.” That signal, from a spinning ...
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