of Sheffield in the UK, odies, since these ultrain an edition of New sounds are played out
Scientist Magazine.
in a 100 milihertz frequency every ten secOne of the most intrigu- onds.
ing aspects of these solar
sounds is that despite At NASA, a multidisciHuman Beings not being plinary team from the
able to hear them (they ‘Ulysses’ mission has
are of a frequency 300 discovered that these
times lower than those pulses from our Solar
we can hear); they pro- Star can be detected
duce peculiar effects on in Submarine cables,
our planet, causing it seismographs etc. More
to vibrate in sympathy fascinating still are the
with the frequencies.
discoveries of the investigators David Thomson
In this context, we can and Louis Lanzerotti
propose that the Solar from the Hiscale proSystem is a cosmic cho- gram in the Ulysses
rus with equilibrated and mission. They concludharmonic
ed that different sounds
melgenerated by the Sun
not only reach
our planet; but
the earth also
generates
rigid movethe Sun sounds and
ments
in
behaves like a musical
response
instrument
to the ultrasounds,
bringing
on a kind of
romantic cosmic
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dance. These events
however do not confine
themselves to just our
Star…
WHAT DO JUPITER
OR NEPTUNE
SOUND LIKE?
Professor Donald W Kurtz
from the Astrophysics
Centre at the University
of
Lancashire
(UK)
states:
‘All the Stars in our
Galaxy produce harmonic vibrations producing a kind of celestial melody’.
NASA has promoted
some laboratory experiments in order to synthesize the sonic oscillations and they obtained
surprising results. By
accelerating the sounds
three or eight times,
you would be able to say