Voyager Captures Sounds of Interstellar Space
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NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft captured these sounds of interstellar space. Voyager 1's plasma wave instrument detected the vibrations of dense interstellar plasma, or ionized gas, from October to November 2012 and April to May 2013. The graphic shows the frequency of the waves, which indicate the density of the plasma. Colors indicate the intensity of the waves, or how "loud" they are. Red indicates the loudest waves and blue indicates the weakest. The soundtrack reproduces the amplitude and frequency of the plasma waves as "heard" by Voyager 1. The waves detected by the instrument antennas can be simply amplified and played through a speaker. These frequencies are within the range heard by human ears. Scientists noticed that each occurrence involved a rising tone. The dashed line indicates that the rising tones follow the same slope. This means a continuously increasing density. When scientists extrapolated this line even further back in time (not shown), they deduced that Voyager 1 first encountered interstellar plasma in August 2012. The Voyager spacecraft were built and continue to be operated by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, in Pasadena, Calif. Caltech manages JPL for NASA. The Voyager missions are a part of NASA's Heliophysics System Observatory, sponsored by the Heliophysics Division of the Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington. For more information about Voyager, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/voyager and http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov . Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Iowa
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c'est une énergie onde-radio des étoiles (moteur protonique) *.
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Sounds like someone is double clicking and mouse or tapping buttons in both instances
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was we not told that u can't produce sounds in space
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Why the background music? I can't tell the interstellar sounds from the added background music. -
Não existe som no vacúo, o som só se propaga de forma mecânica. kkkk som do espaço essa foi boa.
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Beautiful ... the same as intro tu movie The Paul (gray alien:)
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Beautiful noise. Peaceful and pure
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amazing :0
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They are wrong. Everyone is wrong... This is obviously king Ghidorah!
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whatever it is.. it is terrifying..
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I don't think it's possible to go beyond a point in reality it's just circulating the solar system ..scientists can never prove that it ever crossed the solar system ....never
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It's the sound of voyager 1 in motion
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0:22 reminds me of Hl2 Ep2's antlion caves...
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This sound is the audible form of ionized gasses colliding with the influence of the suns field. This isn't deep space. Just gas.
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yep, it's dolphins
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The raw sound of tortured electrons.
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my favorite part starts at 0:22
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It sounds like my farts in the ass crack of dawn
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creepy sounds.....
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It's not really a sound. It's electromagnetic waves TRANSLATED INTO AUDIBLE SOUND WAVES TO HUMANS. Interstellar space doesn't sound like that. It doesn't sound like anything.. at least not to our human ears. Someone send me a JPEG, I bet I can make a cool digital sound out of that. Or the heat waves coming out of my toaster. All the same...
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