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Radio Astronomy... "Sounds" of the Universe

I've asked before, but never seem to get anywhere...

Whenever I watch shows like "The Universe" and "How the Universe was Made" and "Through the Wormhole" and so on, they always mention, and sometimes play, sounds from different objects in space. I remember one episode playing the sound file of what a black hole might sound like.

I'm not completely sure of the process to get the sounds (you can't hear a scream in space, after all), but I think it has something to do with converting radio waves or light waves or some other kind of waves to sound waves and playing those back... or something...

What I do know is that I want these sounds. I do have some of the sun, a quasar, Saturn's rings (so dang cool)... even the Big Bang itself. But I know that more is out there. I've already heard what a black hole might sound like from of those space shows, but I can't find anything outside of YouTube, and I'd rather have non-MP3 files, to be honest. I'd love to get a sound file of a supernova, more of the sun, and I heard yesterday on YouTube what the earth might sound like from space:

(He does link to where he got that sound file, but the link is dead).

Does anyone know of a website that collects all the different sounds that have been produced from waves, preferably in an uncompressed format like .wav?

Please help...

Tags: radio astronomy, sounds, space

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Permalink Reply by Steph S. on January 30, 2012 at 6:51pm

I found some for you -- do you know about these?

http://dir.yahoo.com/computers_and_internet/multimedia/audio/archiv...

http://www.thefreesite.com/Free_Sounds/Free_WAVs/

http://www.frogstar.com/wav/

Permalink Reply by Nathan Hevenstone on January 30, 2012 at 10:15pm

They don't have any of the sounds I'm looking for...

Permalink Reply by Joan Denoo on January 30, 2012 at 7:39pm

Interesting and unexpected. That was the big bang? http://staff.washington.edu/seymour/BigBangSound_2.wav

Permalink Reply by Nathan Hevenstone on January 30, 2012 at 10:19pm

I know, right? Surprised me, quite frankly.

I mean, it's probably not an entirely accurate representation of what it might have sounded like if sound waves could've traveled within a medium from it (I imagine it'd be a hell of a lot louder, for one thing... millions of times louder than any lifeform could actually handle). But I bet it's the closest we'll get to getting an idea of what it could have potentially sounded like.

Permalink Reply by Atreus Redezem on February 11, 2012 at 3:32am