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"Music" Of the Sun Recorded By Astronomers
Scientists at the University of Sheffield have recorded the "music" produced by the magnetic field in the outer atmosphere of the sun. They discovered that the huge magnetic loops that coil away from the outer layer of the sun's atmosphere, known as coronal loops, vibrate like strings on a musical instrument or behave like soundwaves traveling through a wind instrument. From the article: "Professor Robertus von Fáy-Siebenbürgen, head of the solar physics research group at Sheffield University, said, 'It was strangely beautiful and exciting to hear these noises for the first time from such a large and powerful source. It is a sort of music as it has harmonics. It is providing us with a new way of learning about the sun and giving us a new insight into the physics that goes on at in the sun's outer layers where temperatures reach millions of degrees.'"
How soon before it is up on iTunes? ;)
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'It was strangely beautiful and exciting to hear these noises for the first time from such a large and powerful source. It is a sort of music as it has harmonics. It is providing us with a new way of learning about the sun and giving us a new insight into the physics that goes on at in the sun's outer layers where temperatures reach millions of degrees.'
In other words:
"We get to dick around with lots of expensive equipment"
More like Professor Robertus von Gáy-Siebenbürgen.
Sounds a lot like old Pink Floyd. (pre-DSOTM)
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Now to combine this with the sounds of Sputnik and the "sounds" of Mercury from the movie Sunshine.
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Now, turn your stupid gaia-wicca drivel down, get off my lawn, and go and do some Goddamn science.
If you were blocking sigs, you wouldn't have to read this.
I don't wanna persue the captain obvious degree but... this has been posted sooooo many times before on /. and other sites and it this has already been done one freakijng year ago...
Like... COOOOOOOOMMMMMMEEEE OOOOOOOOOONNNNN!!!!
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If you listen closely you can make out the lyrics:
If I have been able to see further than others, it is because I bought a pair of binoculars.
http://www.shef.ac.uk/mediacentre/2010/1662.html
There's a soundcloud link on that page as well (which I can't get to because I'm at work, but I imagine it has a load of 'sun music').
It really irks me that newspaper websites don't link to original sources... its not like putting a URL in print... it'd mean if people were interested, they could simply click and find out more.
Silly newspaper website making people.
"Look here Cap'n, if I play it back at 10 times speed. Now I figure that's gotta be manmade."
Seriously, this isn't music, its something which happens to have a harmonic. They diddle the frequencies to the 20-20kHz range and pretend its "sun music".
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The images were taken down from the NASA site.
http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-2912-Seattle-Exopolitics-Examiner~y2010m1d27-Giant-UFOs-around-the-Sun-NASA-claims-malfunction-physicist-says-giant-ET-UFOs-use-Suns-star-gate
Had no idea the sun paid that exorbitant licensing fee! I guess we'll need a bigger telescope to see the THX sticker.
Never gonna give you up...
In soviet russia the government regulates the companies.
I'm more of a fan of NASA's Symphonies Of The Planets: http://blogs.howstuffworks.com/2009/09/15/symphonies-of-the-planets/
Beautiful, haunting, ethereal and contemplative.
For me sounds like Aphex Twin sounds from Mathematical equation track.
Now we know what music Disaster Area were playing!
America, Home of the Brave.
Funny thing is, I learned about the following concept in sophomore year at university: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_of_the_spheres, and now I've learned that there may actually be music in outer space...
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they should seriously consider making a 10 minute 'music clip' and sell it. I'd have bought the sample.
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Was it the Silversun Pickups? [rimshot!]
If I hear that Panic Switch song one more time... Ever notice how it sounds like a Garbage song? I studied that, and made the decision that it just sounds like all of them.
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Billy Thorpe - Children of the Sun
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_1_18?url=search-alias%3Ddigital-music&field-keywords=children+of+the+sun+billy+thorpe&x=0&y=0&sprefix=children+of+the+su
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I'm only half serious of course but the title of this article is the name of her debut album, pre-ridiculous hair.
And all we get is a stinkin 3 second sound byte? What the hay??
I was expecting some grand thing..along the lines of "the sounds of the planets". Come on, at least make this sun thing at least 60 seconds long.
What's there - well I could have whipped that up myself in sound forge or gnural....
Huh?
When will they learn that raw data converted to sound isn't music?
oh snap!
If those blasted 14 cent plastic horns made from recycled appliance parts are considered "music", than everything is musical. Science OVAH!
I tried to think of a good sig, and this wasn't it.
Why are the first comments here always about the RIAA and whatnot? It almost reminds me of people who hate gays always applying that to things that have nothing to do with it.
That aside, the second tune sounds exactly like Aphex Twin.
No doubt we will soon be treated to recordings of the music of the spheres.
If we play it backwards, does it tell us to worship the moon?
WWJD?
JWRTFM!
Also, reminds me of Win NT start-up sound.
Lately it just seems like it's sold out to the man. What happened to you, sun? You used to be cool.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
They change to "Burn With Me ... BURN WITH ME"
(Dr. Who, "42")
Symphonies Of The Planets - NASA Voyager Recordings on CDs, released I believe in the early 90s.
The horrible screeching noises prove that it infringes upon the RIAA's standard sound for pop music. The sun clearly owes them eleventy billion dollars in damages.
I hope that everyone will help out as we design a shuttle to send RIAA lawyers to the sun so that they may collect damages. Remember: as far as they're concerned, a layer of tin foil qualifies as metaphasic shielding.
You too can experience the beautiful recordings of sun farts!
What a wonderful breakthrough for the World Music Day! I wish more Sun music will be made available shortly by our beloved scientists. Meanwhile, I will keep tuned to white noise radio : http://www.whitenoise.fm/ Long life to random music!
OK, I was wrong. The world will end this year when the RIAA sends a "cease and desist" order to the Sun.
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Dr. Fiorella Terenzi, an itialian astrophysicist, has captured radio waves from a distant galaxy 180 million light years from Earth, converted cosmic waves into sound and transformed the sound into music.
You may never have heard anything like Dr. Fiorella Terenzi's music, but you may recognize the musicians on her 1991 album, Music From the Galaxies. On lead vocals: Jupiter! ("It whistles," she says.) On rhythm guitar: the Sun! ("It bubbles like boiling water.") On drums: pulsars! ("A precise beating time") On bass: Mother Earth! ("It has a very low frequency.") Astrophysicist Terenzi assembled her cosmic combo while studying at UC-San Diego. Using radio telescopes and computer sound-synthesis technology, she intercepted space signals and transformed them into tunes.
Her albums
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Any pseudo-oscillatory time series data can have the X axis stretched or compressed to make it able to be used as an audible signal. That's trivial in terms of both technique and result. It was interesting that someone thought of it decades ago, but the result wasn't. This isn't interesting in either sense, despite the harmonics which might make it sounds more like what we consider music. It's not going to sound like music, it's going to sound like noise with harmonics just like the last dozen data sets to be mistreated this way. Why doesn't someone boost it to the GHz region and drive a klystron with it. At least it would be a novel way to cook lunch, though it wouldn't change the taste one bit.
"I may be synthetic, but I'm not stupid." -- Bishop 341-B
Hotblack Desiato is trying to gather back the band after his prolonged vacations. At the moment he tours the outskirts of the galaxy, basking in the shadow of yesteryear's triumph; although the spaceships aren't thrown in the sun, anymore, just orbiting. Less expensive this way, given the galaxial economic crisis.
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"On what were its footings set, or who laid its cornerstone-while the morning stars sang together and all the angels shouted for joy?" Job 38:6-7 (NIV)
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It's not unusual for new bands to basically rip off the sounds of prior generations and foist them off on their peers as "original" but I didn't realize that astrophysicists did this as well! Almost 20 years ago I had the chance to abuse listeners of my late night college radio show by playing tracks from "Music from the Galaxies," a CD of "songs" derived from the signal data of radio astronomy. The auteur behind this project was Italian astrophysicist Dr. Fiorella Terenzi, who aside from having dual PhD's in both musicology and astrophysics, was also smoking hot. She later collaborated work with nerd-pop hero Thomas Dolby for the soundtrack to one of those Amigas-on-LSD Mind's Eye video compilations.
As someone who really enjoys experimental and electronic music, I found Dr. Terenzi's album only somewhat listenable. As someone who enjoyes experimental and electronic music, and who also feels that science could stand to be sexed up a bit for the masses, I tried really hard to get into it and still couldn't manage to inflict it on my handful of listeners for more than a couple of weekends. Unless the Sun is dramatically funkier than Andromeda, or unless they've got a busty bombshell on their research team, I think they'll have a long time to wait before they can sign a record deal.
I did this kind of musical data imaging to find code and data in a computer's memory in the 1990's.
I was learning to programme in C at the time.