Stars Speak
- May 31, 2016
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The Smithsonian Institute imaged the sound of stars for their African Cosmos Stellar Arts exhibition. The atomic processes within stars create sounds deep within the star, causing the starlight to vary minutely. These tiny modulations can be detected and demodulated, recreating the original sounds in the laboratory. The star sounds were processed by three Universities and the completed sound files were then fed into a CymaScope, rendering the sounds visible supporting research in the field of Astrophysics.
Star: RR Lyrae Star: Chi Hydrae Dr Elisabeth Guggenberger, Dr. Conny Aerts & Team
University of Vienna, Austria University of Leuven, Belgium
Star: Sun Star: PG1159+35 Dr Guenter Houdek and Dr Douglas Gough, Michael Breger, Dept. of Astronomy University of Vienna, Austria University of Texas, USA
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