While the supernova can be seen, it can't 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? That's the idea behind "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. Read more
NASA is making sound clips available for news producers to download from the agency's Web site. The NASA Audio File page has sound clips with NASA scientists, researchers, astronauts, and officials supporting timely news releases about everything from the latest discoveries in space to climate change here on Earth. The page also will offer sound excerpts suitable for audio news features.