e172 Hello From Earth: Australias First Interstellar Message

Published: Nov. 22, 2019, 7:41 p.m.

b'The \\u2018Hello From Earth\\u2019 organizers chose as its communication target a \\u201csuper-Earth\\u201d orbiting the habitable zone of its parent star 20.4 light-years away known as Gliese 581d. The interstellar Tweet was scheduled for August 28, 2009, utilizing three facilities within NASA\\u2019s Deep Space Network that together represented the largest and most sensitive scientific telecommunications system in the world.'