A new website that allows listeners to literally hear the music of the stars was published by a researcher at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.

This philosophy of a "Music of the Spheres" was symbolic. However, modern technology is creating a true music of the spheres by transforming astronomical data into unique musical compositions.
Gerhard Sonnert, a research associate at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, worked with Wanda Diaz-Merced, a postdoctoral student at the University of Glasgow whose blindness led her into the field of sonification (turning astrophysical data into sound); and with composer Volkmar Studtrucker, who turned the sound into music.
"I saw the musical notes on Wanda's desk and I got inspired," Sonnert said.
Diaz-Merced lost her sight in her early 20s while studying physics. When she visited an astronomy lab and heard the hiss of a signal from a radio telescope, she realized that she might be able to continue doing the science she loved. She now works with a program called xSonify, which allows users to present numerical data as sound and use pitch, volume, or rhythm to distinguish between different data values.
During a visit to the Center for Astrophysics in 2011, Diaz-Merced worked with data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. The target was EX Hydrae - a binary system consisting of a normal star and a white dwarf. Known as a cataclysmic variable, it fluctuates in X-ray brightness as the white dwarf consumes gas from its companion.
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He contacted Studtrucker who chose short passages from the sonified notes, perhaps 70 bars in total, and added harmonies in different musical styles.
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The project shows that something as far away and otherworldly as an X-ray-emitting cataclysmic variable binary star system can be significant to humans for two distinct reasons - one scientific and one artistic.
"We're still extracting meaning from data, but in a very different way," explained Sonnert.
People can listen to the results of the project at the Star Songs website.
Source-ANI