Japanese Astronomers Wait For A Message Reply From Aliens Sent Since 1983

Japanese astronomers claim aliens are real, (photo: dock. jaxa)

JAKARTA - Japanese astronomers claim the aliens are real, and hope to receive a message from the alien creature after waiting 40 years.

The astronomers Masaki Marimoto and Hisashi Hirabayashi sent messages on August 15, 1983, containing 13 images explaining what humans are like, and how life on Earth is.

The message was then transcribed into a radio wave and radiated into space using a telescope at Stanford University, United States (US), with the aim of making contact with intelligent alien life in the future.

The two of them sent the message to Altair, a star 16.7 light-years away that has the potential to have life around it.

However, Altair himself appears to be a star without a planet, and there is only one hour to hear the message.

After the message was sent for decades, now a team led by Shinya Narusawa at Hyogo University, Japan, will use a large telescope to try and see if anything is replying to this message.

Narusawa believes the answer may emerge at this time, given the distance to the stars and time that has passed and claims intelligent life is still somewhere in the universe.

In fact, he said it was possible that a planet in the Solar System Altair could accommodate intelligent life abroad.

"A large number of exoplanets have been detected since the 1990s. Altairs may have planets whose environment can sustain life," Narusawa told the Japanese newspaper, The Asashi Shimbun.

They will hear a message coming from the star on August 22 local time, spending hours searching in the sky looking for signs of a message being responded to.

The date was chosen because it was important in the Japanese Tanabata star festival, which symbolically celebrated the meeting of the two gods Orihome and Hikoboshi, last represented by Altair.

Even so, astronomers are preparing to wait longer if no answer is found and the mission is far from the assumption of failure if no answer is detected during the initial search.

For information, Marimoto died in 2010 at the age of 78. While 80-year-old Hirabayashi is currently a professor of emeritus at the Japan Space Agency (JAXA).

He has published several books about the possibility of intelligent life in the universe, such as compiled from The Independent and NYPost, Wednesday.