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LONDON: For the first time, scientists have captured the sound of deep space in stunning new recordings — and it sounds like the dawn chorus of birds singing in spring interspersed with deep bass pulses from the Sun.

Andrew Williams from Leicester's Space Research Centre used data collected by satellites and spacecraft to generate the sound you would hear if you tuned a radio in to outer space. The most compelling recording is the 'dawn chorus' of electrons hitting our upper atmosphere. They sound like starlings tweeting above a bubbling brook, interrupted by the Sun's pulses.

The sound was recorded by the Cluster II satellite in 2001 using a long-wave receiver. Williams said the signals were outside the range of human hearing so he had to lower the pitch and filter them to make them audible.

Another recording is of the rhythmic pulses of the Sun, but Williams had to overcome many difficulties for this one. The sounds picked up by the Soho spacecraft are so deep that Williams had to magnify their pitch by 40,000 times. Because the sound occurs once every five minutes, Williams accelerated the recording 42,000 times to provide 40 days of pulses in just a few seconds.



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