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Corriere della Serra, Italy Courier-Mail, Brisbane, Australia Daily Telegraph, UK Reuters, China The New News, China Boston Globe, USA Al Masri, Egypt CNN Expansion Daily Telegraaf, Netherelands El Argentino, Argentina Folha de Sao Paulo, Brazil O Globo, Brazil

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About Alien Life

ARE WE ALONE? It’s one of the fundamental questions of humanity, and chances are we’ll be hollering the question into the vastness of the universe for centuries to come – someday, we may just get an answer. When that answer comes, it may be anything from a War of the Worlds-style invasion; to a sniff of the […]

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About Exoplanets

FROM NEAR-EARTHS TO BIZARRE planets with oven-hot surfaces, comet-like tails or a seasonal temperature variations of 700°C, our galaxy is filled with a host of weird and wonderful worlds. So far more than 350 exoplanets – planets that orbit other stars – have been discovered, and that’s just the tip of the iceberg. Future sky surveys […]

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About Gliese 581D

THE TARGET PLANET is ‘Gliese 581d’, a super-Earth about eight times heavier than our own planet. Gliese 581d and its three known sister planets orbit the low-mass red dwarf star Gliese 581, about 20.3 light-years (194 trillion km) away from us, in the constellation Libra. Imagine life from the surface of this planet – its […]

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Top Messages

Hello! What do you look like? Are there any animals on your planet? How are you different to us humans? Laura and Jessica Pymble, Australia hello im Dany in our planet there is something we call love,love cant be explain,cause is a feeling,love can move the world,i hope you know what love is…….. Daniel Mexicali, […]

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Hello from planet Earth. I hope we meet someday to share our dreams and experiences. Ronald Y Sydney, Australia This transmission from planet Earth is sent in celebration of scientific discovery, may it find its way across the years ~ VK2TSG Steve Green Emu Plains, Australia Hello from Earth, please come and visit us but […]

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What is an exoplanet anyway? EXOPLANETS, OR EXTRASOLAR planets, are planets in orbit around stars other than the Sun (which is the nearest star to Earth). More than 350 have been discovered so far… more information. Why Gliese 581d? With at least two potentially habitable planets and the most Earth-like planet discovered so far, the Gliese 581 […]

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What Is Hello From Earth?

ARE WE ALONE in the universe? Is there life on other planets? Are there other civilisations in our galaxy? How life began, and whether it exists elsewhere, is a fascinating question which we still cannot answer. Of the eight planets in our Solar System, only one – Earth – has life, as far as we know. […]

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HELLO FROM EARTH was created by COSMOS magazine for National Science Week in Australia, with the support of the Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research. Get Into Science Week! Visit 10 Days of Science, the lively new blog where you can read stories, flick through pictures, hear music and join in discussions around science. […]

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