Visit science.nasa.go... for more! As Voyager 1 recedes from the solar system, researchers are listening for "interstellar music" (a.k.a. plasma waves) to learn more about conditions outside the heliosphere.
This is what a lot of hardwork and teamwork brought it goes to show how great the people of NASA and USA are it's highly commendable,we need to launch like in Titan AE,straight for the comos
This is not a sound recording. This is plasma wave data that has been converted into an audio file based on frequency levels. There is no "sound" in space. (Reddit - ScienceCasts: The Sounds of Interstellar Space for explanation
Plasma waves are coupled with oscillating charged particles in space, so it is a bit like sound. A human ear could not hear these in space because the pressure of the particles against the ear drum would be far too low. However, the associated oscillating electric and magnetic fields are easy to detect with antennas. The sound we play back is the exact waveform we measure and is the moral equivalent of taking a ghostly whisper of a sound and amplifying it.
What does the word mean? The chant OMmmm is the imitation of the sound of the sun, just as the many bells and bowls are the sounds and vibrations of other things to which we are all one.
The om is called the song of the universe in our ancient Hindu texts and it implies the supreme God " Brahman" .chanting om helps us get in sync with the universe .
as the man said:"we are running out of time ", and we are. the solar system is so vast that we ,as a species will probibily not see the total wonders of it or even come close . but we can stand in awe of gods creations while we can . i only hope that the astronauts of the future don't make the same mistakes as we have , but a spe cies must evolve
When it enters another star's system. There's still a problem with defining it. Voyager isn't exactly in the "interstellar space" If you think it's just a planets and heliopause - well, ok. But they've started discovering Kuiper belt- and Oort cloud-like structure around other stars. Which means that only exiting heliopause doesn't mean it left us. We've got structures associated with the Sun - Oort cloud is hypothesised to extend as far as half the distance to Proxima Centauri.
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope observed Comet ISON at 310 million miles away from the Sun. The data are still being processed and no results have been announced yet.
A Timeline Of Comet ISON’s Dangerous Journey NASA has initiated a Comet ISON Observing Campaign to facilitate a massive global observation campaign incorporating both space-based and ground-based telescopes and encouraging citizen scientists and both professional and amateur astronomers to participate. Read on for a timeline of observations expected of Comet ISON on its perilous journey. WHERE'S THE UPDATE???!!!
Because Indians are paid 5 to 10 times cheaper than Westerners for any given job, even post-graduates, therefore it's only logical to assume that things they build cost a lot less. The perception of "costing less" is mostly due to the currency conversion rate not accurately reflecting the cost of living in India.
INDIANS??? It is the XXI NATIVE ASIANS, please.. I'll agree with you.. However, NASA-just like every single government agency spends more than it needs to...
communistjesus Yes, I do agree that too much money is being spent into bureaucratic proceedings, but there's also that private contractors really, _really_ like to deepen their well-greased pockets at the expense of taxpayers.
Google's "ghost banning" is infuriating. My comments providing links to the original real-time electron plasma oscillation audio were thus banned, so it's left as an exercise to the student as to how to find these . . .
Is anyone else concerned that we rely on an antiquated computing system that records on tape? Why can't NASA get the funding to convert these ancient computers to digital so we can appreciate real time data? I suppose they will by necessity keep room-sized tape delayed computers going for the next hundred years!
When I started working on the Voyager project in 1979, we had a Univac 418 III computer that occupied half a room and contained 64K 18-bit words of magnetic core memory . . . There's no hope of catching the Voyagers for updates, but the Planetary Society recently got approval to launch a small satellite to test a solar sail (google can find you the details). I think it would be great if somebody would modify this design slightly and spin a large aluminized mylar "sail" into a huge orbiting parabolic radio dish dedicated to tracking Voyager 1. It would be really cool to be able to once again receive full "space audio" data rates and get continuous data coverage.
***** This is great news... I just joined the Planetary Society! I actually have a cousin who finds planets at the Carnegie Institute in Washington... which is very cool in itself, but somehow knowing more about near space is more immediately impressive. Thank you Space Audio! Like the idea of tracking the trackers too...
☢☢☢ this shall be 1st `~ in my new playslist " voyagers in Interstellar space " = carry one little astrophysics bots, your both are now all that stands between my U.N.prepared Earth & any distruptive inclement space weather the Local Interstellar Cloud has thrown in our path
