• MP3 - the whole show
  [Duration 71:19, 32.7 MB]
• MP3 - The Sounds of Space
  [Duration 38:58, 17.9 MB]
• MP3 - Tour of Space Centre Houston
  [Duration 25:41, 11.8 MB]

August 2008 Extra

In space nobody can hear you scream but that doesn't mean that it is totally quiet. In this show, Tim O'Brien helps our ears to explore the sounds of the cosmos [08:12-46:53] and Elaine Barrett tells us about her very special tour of NASA's Space Centre in Houston [48:03-1:10:13].

• August 2008 Extra MP3: Download the whole show (low and high bandwidth versions)
• Registax
• Running Registax under Linux
• GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP)
• Our video trailer
• Mark Shaw's image of the partial solar eclipse from Manchester

The Sounds of Space

Stuart talks to Tim O'Brien (University of Manchester) about the sounds of space. The sounds we played were:

1. The sound of supernova remnant Cassiopeia A recorded by the Lovell Telescope
2. Whistler waves
3. Proton Whistlers
4. Leonid meteor echoes
5. Jovian Chorus
6. Jovian S-Burst
7. Jovian S-Burst speeded up by a factor 128
8. ESA Huygens lander radar signal
9. Solar sounds generated from 40 days of Michelson Doppler Imager data and processed by A. Kosovichev.
10. Solar Energetic Particles data from the HELIOS mission
11. X-ray observations of Cygnus X-1 from the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer
12. PSR B0329+54 observations from the Lovell Telescope
13. Vela pulsar observations
14. Crab pulsar observations
15. PSR B1937+21 observations
16. Pulsars in globular cluster 47 Tuc
17. Double pulsar eclipse
18. The first million years of the Universe
19. The Cosmic Microwave Background

• The Sounds of Space MP3: Download this segment individually (low and high bandwidth versions)
• Wikipedia: Cassiopeia A
• Cassiopeia A image from the VLA
• Professor Don Burnett's Sounds of Space
• Wikipedia: Whistlers
• Jodrell Bank Meteor Detector
• Jovian Chorus
• Nature: Jovian S-burst observations at 32 MHz, Michael D. Desch, Richard S. Flagg and Jorge May
• ESA Huygens: sounds from Titan
• Stanford University: Solar Sounds
• Berkeley: Solar Wind Sonification
• The Rossi X-Ray Timing Explorer Project
• Wikipedia: Cygnus X-1
• Jodrell Bank: Sounds of Pulsars
• APoD: Vela Pulsar
• APoD: The Crab Nebula Pulsar Shrugs
• SEDS: NGC 104 - globular cluster 47 Tucanae
• Double pulsar system
• Double pulsar animations by Ren?Breton (McGill University)
• Mark Whittle's (University of Virginia) Sounds From The Newborn Universe

Tour of Space Centre Houston

Elaine Barrett tells us about her very special Level 9 tour of NASA's Space Centre in Houston.

• Tour of Space Centre Houston MP3: Download this segment individually (low and high bandwidth versions)
• Level 9 Tour

Apollo Era Control Centre (c) Elaine Barrett

Space Shuttle cockpit (c) Elaine Barrett

International Space Station Control Centre (c) Elaine Barrett

The big neutral buoyancy tank for astronaut training (c) Elaine Barrett

Astronaut mooning (c) Elaine Barrett

Elaine standing next to the vacuum chamber (c) Elaine Barrett

Show Credits