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that you are hearing the waves of the ocean; such is the similarity, or the song of whales and dolphins. It depends of course on the intensity of each electromagnetic field as well as the grade of manipulation. And, of course, the imagination. We highly recommend our readers make a search on the internet so they can hear these amazing sounds. Jupiter Donald A. Gurnett is Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the University of IOWA (USA) and he is one of the pioneers in the classification of the sounds of the Universe. This scientist’s investigations have actually inspired musicians to introduce these peculiar signature sounds into their compositions. ETERNAL ECHOES Pythagoras may have been the first to become aware of the phenomenon. But who was the first to have the privilege of actually ‘listening’ to the music of the spheres? We have to travel back to the 1930’s, when the young physicist Karl Jansky, from Bell’s Laboratories, discovered that some radio waves generated static interferences that came from the centre of the Milky Way. With merely an old radio-receptor and an antenna assembled on his Ford T chassis, he was the first man able to audibly distinguish the music of the stars. Neptune 29