Sounds of Space

Saturn's eerie radio emissions

While approaching Saturn in April of 2002 NASA's Cassini spacecraft began detecting radio emissions from the planet's poles. The spacecraft measured a spectrum of frequencies all of which correlated to the appearance of auroras. Structures in the recordings show that the waves come from several small radio sources channeled along Saturn's magnetic field producing sounds far above the human ability to hear.

A 44x downward shift produces the sounds heard here
http://youtu.be/6nxLXvqLp50

(You're listening to sounds from over 746 million miles away, if you don't think that's the tightest shit then get out of my face)

Voyager One's interstellar shrieks

In August 2012 after 35 years in space, Voyager I became the first human craft to enter interstellar space. It marked the occasion by sending back the shrieking sounds of solar shockwaves colliding with interstellar plasma. This is caused when the ionized gas of space piles up on the outer reaches of the Sun 12 billion miles away! Another recording in 2013 showed that the pitch of interstellar tone was rising as the plasma density increased away from the sun.

http://youtu.be/LIAZWb9_si4

The Predator Comet

As the Rosetta spacecraft approached comet 67P in August of 2014, it surprised scientists with a strange recording. Unexpectedly, the comet was producing a "song" in the form of oscillations in the magnetic field surrounding it. The variations in magnetic frequency occurred between 40-50 millihertz, 10,000 times lower than human hearing can detect!

http://youtu.be/iCv7OlpV8jU

Jupiter's "Jovian Whistles"

Jupiter has the largest planetary atmosphere in the solar system, complete with a multitude of violent weather systems. In addition to the big red spot, Jupiter is marked by powerful storms capable of producing lightning 1,000 times more powerful than on Earth. Jupiters lightning produces high pitched sounds known as "Jovian Whistlers" as pulses of their electromagnetic energy propagate into space.

http://youtu.be/ap5CXHTiVi4

Dark heart

Binary star system GRS 1915+105 is one of the most bizarre objects in Space consisting of a star continuously feeding a black hole. The pair creates a sort of space geyser as the black hole rips matter away from the star and ejects the resulting accretion disk. Every half-hour, mass equal to the size of a 100 trillion ton asteroid is flung across space at nearly the speed of light. NASA's Rossi x-Ray satellite observed the process in 1996 and had its recordings converted to sound by MIT. In the sped up recording, the black hole's uncared jets pulse like a dark heartbeat.

http://youtu.be/jYiWNLv-Bgg

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