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NASA is to beam Beatles song 'Across The Universe' directly into deep space on Monday.
The track - the first to be transmitted over the Deep Space Network - will commemorate the agency's 50th birthday and the 40th anniversary of the day it was originally recorded.
Former Beatle Sir Paul McCartney described the news as "amazing", adding: "Send my love to the aliens!"
Lennon's widow Yoko Ono said: "I see that this is the beginning of the new age in which we will communicate with billions of planets across the universe."
The song will travel at a speed of 186,000 miles per second in the direction of the North Star, Polaris, which is located 431 light years away from Earth.
McCartney made the first ever live music broadcast into space in November 2005, when his performance of 'Good Day Sunshine' at a gig in California was beamed to the international space station.
