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In print from a Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, a vital solar tear is shown in swell Oct. 29, 2003. A vast coronal mass ejection is being hurled toward a Earth.
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In print from a Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, a vital solar tear is shown in swell Oct. 29, 2003. A vast coronal mass ejection is being hurled toward a Earth.
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In 2001: A Space Odyssey, Stanley Kubrick evokes a measureless and absolute inlet of outdoor space with Richard Strauss’ score, Thus Spoke Zarathustra.
The song is now inextricably related to a thought of space exploration. But what if, instead, we could emanate song from solar eruptions?
That’s accurately what sonification dilettante Robert Alexander does.
Although we can’t hear anything in space, scientists can still use sound to know a solar complement by branch information collected by NASA satellites into sounds and music.
Alexander, who works during a Solar and Heliospheric Research Group during a University of Michigan, spoke to Jacki Lyden, horde of weekends on All Things Considered, about what’s behind some of a solar song he has composed.
Listen to some of a sounds Alexander has combined by a routine called sonification.
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