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Uploaded by on Jan 22, 2010

Scientists are quite familiar with what a supernova looks like — when these stars are destroyed in the most massive explosions in the universe, they leave their mark as one of the brightest objects in space, at least for several weeks.
While the supernova can be seen, it cant be heard, as sound waves cannot travel through space. But what if the light waves emitted by the exploding star and other cosmological phenomena could be translated into sound? Thats the idea behind a Rhythms of the Universe, a musical project to sonify the universe by Grateful Dead percussionist and Grammy award-winning artist Mickey Hart that caught the attention of Nobel Prize-winning astrophysicist George Smoot of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Sounds courtesy of Keith Jackson. Images courtesy of NASA

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  • This is BERKELEY. DO ANY OF YOU F**KTARDS REALIZE THIS IS A UNIVERSITY VIDEO?

  • Ignorant FOOLS think they know what they are talking about, though this does sound fake and does sound like someone breathing, there IS sound in space. Its not sound we can hear with our ears, they are NOT radio signals you fool, if they were, it would be coming from one of our satellites or and alien race. They are from radioactivity, it creates a "sound" that can only be picked up by a unique type of "microphone". Its difficult for me to explain, look it up.

  • *deep breath and poof* And repeat!

  • I think this is a Dumbass Breath...

  • who flushed the toilet ??

  • sounds like breathing.....

  • @lost91231 these a radio signal converted to audible sound

  • there can be no sound becouse there is vacum as much I know

  • Sounds a bit like bowling.

  • Slow heart beating..

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