We can't find life in the uni-verse because we can't grasp that it's all alive and conscious..."as above so below"...at every scale

Sorry, but this is the result of starlight passing through several layers of Earth's atmosphere, plus the limitations of optical equipment. Ground based telescopes and cameras all share those limitations, and it's the main reason we launched Hubble and the more recent telescopes into space to get away from light pollution and the distortions of our atmosphere.