Pictures of Cheryl Cole have been beamed up into space as part of the digital time capsule, A Message From Earth.

Cheryl Cole and Richard and Judy were voted the people who would represent Earth and so their picture were beamed into space.

The ground-breaking time capsule made history last week as images were beamed from the National Space Agency on a 120 trillion-mile journey towards a target planet that could potentially hold life.

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The event, in association with Bebo, also saw celebrities revealing what they would send into space.

McFly revealed they would like aliens to know about X Factor judge Cheryl Cole: "She’s absolutely gorgeous. She’s got the perfect body and we’re really enjoying watching her on our TV screens".

How Cheryl appears in the pictures

Scouting for Girls revealed their admiration for a Baywatch legend: "I'd send a picture of David Hasselhoff into space - he would give aliens an impression of what a human man should look like".

The Jonas Brothers revealed they fancy Victoria Beckham, as they picked her out as the person they’d most like to send into space because ‘she would show aliens the perfect body of a woman’.

Basshunter gave an insight into his eating habits when he said he’d like "to send a big plate of fish and chips, because it’s really good and I eat at least one portion a day".

George Sampson gave a demonstration of a breakdancing move, from which he would like ‘aliens to learn’.

The messages were beamed into space from the National Space Agency in Ukraine, and ran on Bebo throughout the summer. There are now plans to make A Message From Earth into a TV show.