The Sound of Space
4 Extra Debut. Astronomer Dr Lucie Green takes a sonic tour of the Universe, revealing the hidden sounds of Jupiter and beyond. From 2015.
The previously silent world of outer space is changing.
In this audio tour around the Universe, Dr Lucie Green explores the sounds of space.
Some sounds have been recorded by microphones on-board interplanetary spacecraft. Others have been detected by telescopes and sped up until their frequency is tuned to our ears. The rest are sonified X-rays, space plasma or radio waves that reveal tantalising secrets about the universe that our eyes cannot see.
Everyone can recall the sound of the singing comet - a symphony created using measurements from the Rosetta mission. But many other sounds have been created from space data, from lightning on Jupiter to vibrations inside the Sun. From spinning pulsars to black holes and gamma ray bursts, outside our Solar System space becomes even stranger.
Joining Lucie Green on this sonic journey through space are:
* Prof Tim O'Brien (Associate Director of Jodrell Bank Observatory),
* Honor Harger (Executive Director of the ArtScience museum in Singapore) and
* Dr Andrew Pontzen (Cosmology Research Group, University College London)
Plus archive from Dame Jocelyn Bell-Burnell.
Producer: Michelle Martin
First broadcast on 麻豆社 Radio 4 in January 2015.
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The Rings of Saturn
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Landing on Titan
Duration: 02:29
Space Sounds
Sun 鈥� one mode (NASA SOHO/ A. Kosovichev, Stanford Solar
Observatories Group)
Sun 鈥� all modes (NASA SOHO/ A. Kosovichev, Stanford Solar
Observatories Group)
Earth aurora (NASA/ Donald Gurnett, University of Iowa)
Mercury 鈥� Magnetometer data (NASA
Messenger)
Comet 67P/Churyumov鈥揋erasimenko (ESA Rosetta/ Manuel Sennft)
Jupiter upstream ion acoustic waves (NASA Voyager 1/ Donald Gurnett, University
of Iowa)
Jupiter whistlers (NASA Voyager 1/ Donald Gurnett, University of Iowa)
Earth whistlers (NASA/ Donald Gurnett, University of Iowa)
Saturn鈥檚 rings (NASA/ESA/ASI Cassini-Huygens/ Donald
Gurnett, University of Iowa)
Saturn radio emission (NASA/ESA/ASI Cassini-Huygens/ Donald Gurnett, University
of Iowa)
Huygens microphone (ESA Huygens)
Huygens radar (ESA Huygens)
Red giant (Asteroseismology.org)
White dwarf (Asteroseismology.org)
Pulsar PSRB1919+21 (CSIRO Parkes radio telescope, Australia)
Millisecond Pulsar PSRJ0437-4715 (CSIRO Parkes radio
telescope, Australia)
Vela pulsar (CSIRO Parkes radio telescope, Australia)
Black hole 鈥� Cygnus X 1 (NASA Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer/ Flowmotion/ 聽Tim O鈥橞rien, Jodrell Bank)
Gamma ray burst (NASA Swift telescope/ Andrew Pontzen, UCL)
Music
Radioqualia
鈥� Comma data return
Sigur
Ros 鈥� Jodrell Bank Mix 1
Semiconductor
鈥� Black Rain
Louis
Dandrel 鈥� Les Chant des 脡toile 鈥� Jupiter
Voyager
recordings - Symphonies of the Planets 鈥� Jupiter
Louis Dandrel 鈥� Les Chants des 脡toiles 鈥� Androm猫de
Radioqualia
鈥� SKR Live mix 15.11.08
Voyager
recordings - Symphonies of the Planets - Saturn
Louis
Dandrel 鈥� Les Chants des 脡toiles 鈥� Arietis
Louis
Dandrel 鈥� Les Chants des 脡toiles 鈥� Pulsars Crabe et Vela
Ensemble
S - Gerard Grisey 鈥� Le Noir d鈥櫭塼oile Pt 2
Louis
Dandrel 鈥� Les Chants des 脡toiles 鈥� 07) Soleil
Louis
Dandrel 鈥� Les Chants des 脡toiles 鈥� 01) Soleil
Radioqualia 鈥� Data space return
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