
Beautiful night sky, the Milky Way, meteor and the trees. Elements of this image furnished by NASA.
(Picture: Getty/iStock)Astronomers have recently discovered mysterious radio waves from the Milky Way, but they’re struggling to identify what’s causing them.
A student at the University of Sydney, Ziteng Wang, first detected the unusual signals while using an ASKAP radio telescope. Now astronomers are working hard to search for more evidence of what could be emitting them — though it appears that aliens are out of the question.