Jerry Ehman was working with Ohio State University’s Bog Ear radio telescope on a SETI project, as he would, everyday, on August 15, 1977. Suddenly, he picked a signal 30 times as strong as the background noise of deep space. It was tracked for 72 seconds and had a frequency similar to that of the spectral line for hydrogen. The radio telescope printed out the signal, in which Ehman wrote one word: “Wow!” when he spotted a surprising vertical column with the alphanumerical sequence “6EQUJ5”. Later on, what he heard that night has been known to everyone as the Wow! signal. But, was never to be heard again. Today, it is considered to have been an astrophysical phenomenon.
It has persisted as a big question in the world we live. In fact, this question has been around, for like time unknown. Science fiction authors have always loved the belief that there must be something living, may be far more advanced than us humans, out there in our Universe, with more than 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (that’s 1 followed by 24 zeros) planets.
Life has always been wide ranging on Earth. From one celled amoebas to large elephants and blue whales, colorless to ones with vivid colors, from that exist in frigid conditions to ones in harsh desert
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"It's highly improbable in the limitless vastness of the universe that we humans stand alone," according to the NASA administrator Charles Bordon. NASA also plays an important role in the search for life. The launch of the James Webb Telescope in 2018 is said to give an extra boost in the field. The new piece of equipment is designed to study infrared light, making it easier to spot extrasolar planets. According to Matt Mountain, director of the Space Telescope Science Institute, it would take a new generation of space telescopes to hunt extraterrestrials. And, that would need new rockets and a lot of technological