i dont think starts are very inhabitable being giant explosions of gas and all (:P) but planets; from the page:
Planets
The positions of all of the planets in our solar system were looked up in an ephemeris (i.e., a book that provides information (like position) about a wide range of astronomical phenomena). None of the planets were close to the Wow! source position. Of course, one would not expect a planet to be generating a narrowband radio emission. Normally, when a planet is observed in the radio band, we detect the radio emission over the entire radio band (assuming the telescope is sensitive enough). That radio emission is usually "thermal emission" due to the temperature of the planet. Remember that every body with substance (mass) generates radio waves (including human beings). Radio telescopes have detected the thermal emission from most of the planets plus our moon. Besides the thermal emission, non-thermal radio emission from Jupiter in the decametric radio band (i.e., wavelengths of 10s of meters) was first detected from the early days of radio astronomy. This emission was moderately narrowband and occurred from charged particles moving in the magnetic field of Jupiter. So, not only did the Wow! source emission not fit the pattern of this Jupiter-style emission nor the thermal-type emission, but, in addition, none of the planets were in the proper position in the sky.
but from this other page:
Discovery Space: Cosmic Ray: WOW! Interstellar Spam?
But I never gave this SETI hiccup much thought until I realized that the beam came from the direction of the summer constellation Sagittarius. Of the 88 constellations on the sky Sagittarius is the Monopoly game’s “Boardwalk” and "Park Place” on the sky.
Why so special? Because it lies in the direction of the galactic center. This is a region of the Milky Way galaxy that contains the highest density of stars because we’re looking right into the hub of our star-city. It includes some of the oldest stars in our galaxy.
Sagittarius is the first constellation I would pick to go looking for signals from E.T.
This alone convinces me that the WOW signal was probably a real transmission from an extraterrestrial civilization. What are the chances that out of all the constellations on the sky a weirdo manmade radio artifact just happens to pop up in the direction of Sagittarius?