Pulsars in 47 Tucanae

This beautiful globular cluster harbours 22 millisecond pulsars with periods between 2 and 8 ms. Many of them have a binary companion. We can estimate that hundreds more of these objects are in the cluster, but they may be too weak to be detected.

The video is an animated tour of the cluster, with the pulsars occupying the 3D positions determined from timing observations. The sounds are the true sounds of the pulsars, but their images are rotating several hundred times slower than reality.

This video was produced by Michael Kramer and Andrew Lyne

Original 40mb video can be found at http://www.jb.man.ac.uk/research/pulsar/Education/Sounds/

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• pulsar
• pulsars
• 47tucanae
• 47
• tucanae

[jednoucelovy]

Magnificent! Such a space traffic jam, those pulsars are honking at each other

[halfbrotherofdeath]

waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaoooooooooooo­oo

[emraup]

It sounds like an orchestra



[PsiStarstormOmega982]

tucanae 1:HAY GET OUT OF THE WAY

tucanae:2 NO U

tucanae 3: (hehehehe bitches.)

tucanae 4: Jeez what's all the racket for.

[NGC104]

Nice cluster, it's my favorite.

[Immortal91Technique]

@ihpim

It sounds like a sci-fi laser gun.

Seriously.

[khwlel]

in the quraan it said that b4 1432 years ago

[ihpim]

Beautiful! Wonder how the earth sounds like from away???

[skepticalinquier]

Beautiful music of Universe.. that's why I create mystical musical pieces on a mystic can truely love.

[FRODOGOOFBALL]

Starting resolution needs work, but otherwise outstanding job!

[BkkJohn]

Mickey Hart has made music with pulsar tracks. But I am wondering what this soundtrack is. Did they take 3 separate tracks of 3 pulsars and do a live "mix"? or are they each fading in and out?

[foxxthefox]

23 pulsars singing inside the Great Toucan's Core..

Magnificent Works here.. they should seriously make a music out of this stars... they have there own note.. others even have there own Rhythm...