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Radio, The Big Ear, and the Wow! Signal
The Big Ear radio telescope at Ohio State University was one of the first to listen for signals from space. About the size of three football fields, it used an immense metal ground plane and two fence-like reflectors. This photo shows the tiltable reflector, which helped scan the sky as the Earth rotated. The Big Ear famously detected the "Wow!" signal, a strong narrowband radio signal, in 1977.
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In tropical astrology, 2 MAY 2020 falls under Taurus (♉). The sign's window runs from 04-20 through 05-20. Taurus holds the Pleiades star cluster and Aldebaran, the red giant that marks the eye of the Bull. The Sun was crossing this region of the sky on 2 MAY 2020.