Can you actually hear sound in space? Usually, no. Most of the eerie 'sounds of space' you've heard are sonifications — radio, plasma, magnetic or other scientific measurements converted into audio.
But the Perseus galaxy cluster contains something different: genuine pressure waves traveling through hot gas. Their inferred pitch is about 57 octaves below middle C, far beneath human hearing.
In this video:
- Why vacuum is silent
- What Jupiter and Saturn 'sounds' really are
- The pressure waves in the Perseus cluster
- How NASA turns space data into audio
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