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dmux
It's probably someone microwaving lunch.
microwavecamera
"Damnit Bill do you have to eat that Hot Pocket right now? We're trying to work."
allencoin
For those skipping straight to the comments, they basically think it's 1 or more geostationary satellites that happen to be in the path of the observed star, Ross 128.
tomcam
You caught me! Thank you very much.
Darthy
So what's the likelihood of a naturally occurring geostationary satellite vs one created by alien life?
pavel_lishin
I think they mean a man-made geostationary satellite.
jzamora
Nice, very glad to see the telescope is still being used for some cool stuff.
sillysaurus3
A good opportunity to ask: What does everyone here think the Wow signal was? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wow!_signal

I know it's just speculation, but it's fun to speculate. What could it have been? Could any natural phenomena generate a signal like that?

It certainly wasn't a message aimed at us, or anything like that. But it did happen, so I can't help but wonder what it likely was.

jerry40
Interestingly, we've surrounded our planet by sputniks which were invented as a step to the stars but sometimes they make our interstellar eyesight less sharp.