Update. Here's a great example of reusing older #data, this time for the original purpose. Scientists retrieved unpublished data from the 1977 "Wow!" signal captured by the #Arecibo radio telescope as part of the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (#SETI), reanalyzed it with modern tools, and improved our understanding of where it came from and what might have caused it.
* primary source
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10657
* summary
https://phys.org/news/2025-08-wow-stronger-thought.html