- Is calling E.T. a smart move? In 2008, NASA beamed the Beatles song "Across the Universe" into deep space, sending a message of peace to any extraterrestrial who happens to be in the region of Polaris, also called the North Star, in 2439. http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100129/ts_afp/spaceastronomyextraterrestrials 3 comments science