Music of the Spheres

[ysabetwordsmith]

Sound frequencies of stars sing of our galaxy's past and future

Researchers interrogated the 'sounds' of a cluster of stars within the Milky Way, uncovering a new technique for astrophysicists to probe the universe and learn more about its evolution.

Comments

[crunchysteve]

Our ears are very powerful tools for peceiving differences in harmonics mixes that the eye can struggle to pick up in spectrum traces. In my field of audio production, there was a lot of info from the tech services engineers about how to measure a proper stereo field for broadcast and we production ops would always just use our ears and get it spot on.

It's like feeling, there's a strong emotional connection to the differences in tone, so rebanding and listening to the radio telescope signals makes sense as part of the range of observational tools humans have always used to understand the universe around us.

[labelleizzy]

Science 🔭 usually helps me feel better (right now I feel dull, sad, and hopeless)

I'll revisit this after dinner and see how I feel then.

Thoughts

[ysabetwordsmith]

My sympathies. I hope you feel better soon.