What interstellar space sounds like

[The Straight Story]

So long, Voyager!

Scientists who have been following the Voyager 1 Spacecraft since 1977 now believe the craft escaped the hot gas bubble surrounding our sun and broken into interstellar space some time within the last year.

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“It’s really incredible how far we are. We’re three times as far as Pluto — more than that, actually,” Gurnett says.

Another way to look at the distance: It takes 17 hours for the radio signal to get back to the Earth, traveling at the speed of light. In comparison, it takes about 8 minutes for light to reach Earth from the sun. He says the original Voyager team didn’t want to believe it was that far away.

“Maybe 30 years ago, people thought it was just beyond the orbit of Jupiter. And I don’t think at the time anybody wanted to believe we’d have to go another 20 years before we got there. But that’s in fact how it turned out,” Gurnett says.

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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.

http://holykaw.alltop.com/what-interstellar-space-sounds-like-video?tu2=1

[madaboutharry]

1. That is interesting.

Thanks for the link.

[Octafish]

2. Another example of SF preceding the reality.

http://io9.com/5815346/the-strange-instruments-that-created-your-favorite-movie-scores

Thank you, The Straight Story. Fascinating that NASA thing Voyager Vger take us to your yacht club big light.

[warrior1]

3. I thought that there is no sound in space

[MineralMan]

5. None you can hear directly. The sound in that

video represents something. You wouldn't hear it if you were on the spacecraft, assuming that you could be on it.

[warrior1]

6. I heard that the new movie Gravity

will be like that. They said in the commercials for effect that you will here the explosion when accident happens, but in the movie it will be quiet as well it should.

[Warren DeMontague]

8. You'd hear your head exploding as it froze and boiled simultaneously

that's pretty much it.

[valerief]

9. Space has a soundtrack, though, according to the movie. nt

[snooper2]

4. That is pretty badass, science rules

I'm sure some fundy out there will say, that's what angels sound like LOL

[ThoughtCriminal]

7. Music of Forbidden PLanet

The plasma sounds reminded me just a little bit of the classic soundtrack

Krell live!