Mysterious signals from 1000 light years away

September 2, 2004 | Source: NewScientist.com News

A radio signal designated “SHGb02+14a” seems to be coming from a point between the constellations Pisces and Aries, where there is no obvious star or planetary system within 1000 light years. And the transmission is very weak.

It has a frequency of about 1420 megahertz (one of the main frequencies at which hydrogen, the most common element in the universe, readily absorbs and emits energy).