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Someone needs to sample this sound of a meteoroid striking Mars

September 21, 2022September 21, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments InSight, Mars, Meteor, Meteroid, NASA

I’m pretty sure you can replicate this sound with a Roland Jupiter 8, but why when you can use something

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NASA has captured the actual sound of a black hole

August 24, 2022August 24, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments Black Hole, Chandra X-Ray Observatory, NASA, Perseus, Sound

Yes, yes. I know that in space no one can hear your scream. (If you don’t get the reference, you

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Now that we’ve seen the black hole at the centre of the Milky Way, we can now listen to it

May 17, 2022May 17, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments Black Hole, NASA, Sagittarius A*, Sonification

The big astronomy story of last week was the release of a photo of Sagitarrius A*, the supermassive black hole

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Coolest audio of the day: The echo of a black hole

May 6, 2022May 6, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments Black Hole Week, Black Holes, Cosmic Rays, MIT, NASA, X-Rays

There’s nothing more powerful in the universe than a black hole, the mysterious remnants of an ultra-giant star that has

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Music News AJMT
Music News 

Random music news for Monday, March 21, 2022

March 21, 2022March 21, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments Barenaked Ladies, CDs, Eric Clapton, Gordon Lightfoot, Grammys, Kanye, Keith Richards, KISS, NASA, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Tom DeLonge, Ukraine

Science has discovered The Most Boring Person in the World. Meanwhile, music news for March 21, 2022, is anything but.

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Eddie Vedder and NASA(!!!) together at last

March 18, 2022March 18, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments Artemis, Eddie Vedder, Moon Mission, NASA, Pearl Jam

If NASA is going to do anything in deep, they need a big rocket. The solution is the new Artemis

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Looking for some way-out sounds? Here are NASA’s sounds of the solar system

February 8, 2022February 8, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments NASA, Solar System, Sounds

There are many signals from space, some of which can be translated into audible sound. NASA has this collection of

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What does the universe sound like? Let’s listen.

January 6, 2022January 6, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments NASA, Sonification, Space, Universe

First a little nerdery. Light and all forms of radiation are part of the electromagnetic spectrum. It’s possible to shift

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What would Starman play? Spanish company wants to find out

September 28, 2021September 28, 2021 Amber Healy 0 Comments exoacoustics, exoluthery, Instruments, Mars, Music, NASA, regolith, simulants, Space

Ever wondered what kind of music might someday be made in space?  Wonder no more: A Spanish instrument designer has

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More audio from Mars!

March 18, 2021March 18, 2021 Alan Cross 0 Comments JPL, Mars, NASA, Perserverance

NASA’s Perseverance rover is equipped with a special microphone that can pick up sounds of Mars. The atmosphere is extremely

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Thanks to Perseverance, we now know what Mars SOUNDS like.

February 23, 2021February 23, 2021 Alan Cross 1 Comment Mars, NASA, Perseverance

Thanks to an LA musician named Jason Mazilis, a hardcore fan of space exploration, a special microphone was included as

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