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What Is on Voyager’s Golden Record?

From a whale song to a kiss, the time capsule sent into space in 1977 had some interesting contents

Megan Gambino

Senior Editor

“I thought it was a brilliant idea from the beginning,” says Timothy Ferris. Produce a phonograph record containing the sounds and images of humankind and fling it out into the solar system.

By the 1970s, astronomers Carl Sagan and Frank Drake already had some experience with sending messages out into space. They had created two gold-anodized aluminum plaques that were affixed to the Pioneer 10 and Pioneer 11 spacecraft. Linda Salzman Sagan, an artist and Carl’s wife, etched an illustration onto them of a nude man and woman with an indication of the time and location of our civilization.

The “Golden Record” would be an upgrade to Pioneer’s plaques. Mounted on Voyager 1 and Voyager 2, twin probes launched in 1977, the two copies of the record would serve as time capsules and transmit much more information about life on Earth should extraterrestrials find it.

NASA approved the idea. So then it became a question of what should be on the record. What are humanity’s greatest hits? Curating the record’s contents was a gargantuan task, and one that fell to a team including the Sagans, Drake, author Ann Druyan, artist Jon Lomberg and Ferris, an esteemed science writer who was a friend of Sagan’s and a contributing editor to Rolling Stone .

The exercise, says Ferris, involved a considerable number of presuppositions about what aliens want to know about us and how they might interpret our selections. “I found myself increasingly playing the role of extraterrestrial,” recounts Lomberg in Murmurs of Earth , a 1978 book on the making of the record. When considering photographs to include, the panel was careful to try to eliminate those that could be misconstrued. Though war is a reality of human existence, images of it might send an aggressive message when the record was intended as a friendly gesture. The team veered from politics and religion in its efforts to be as inclusive as possible given a limited amount of space.

Over the course of ten months, a solid outline emerged. The Golden Record consists of 115 analog-encoded photographs, greetings in 55 languages, a 12-minute montage of sounds on Earth and 90 minutes of music. As producer of the record, Ferris was involved in each of its sections in some way. But his largest role was in selecting the musical tracks. “There are a thousand worthy pieces of music in the world for every one that is on the record,” says Ferris. I imagine the same could be said for the photographs and snippets of sounds.

The following is a selection of items on the record:

Silhouette of a Male and a Pregnant Female

The team felt it was important to convey information about human anatomy and culled diagrams from the 1978 edition of The World Book Encyclopedia. To explain reproduction, NASA approved a drawing of the human sex organs and images chronicling conception to birth. Photographer Wayne F. Miller’s famous photograph of his son’s birth, featured in Edward Steichen’s 1955 “Family of Man” exhibition, was used to depict childbirth. But as Lomberg notes in Murmurs of Earth , NASA vetoed a nude photograph of “a man and a pregnant woman quite unerotically holding hands.” The Golden Record experts and NASA struck a compromise that was less compromising— silhouettes of the two figures and the fetus positioned within the woman’s womb.

DNA Structure

At the risk of providing extraterrestrials, whose genetic material might well also be stored in DNA, with information they already knew, the experts mapped out DNA’s complex structure in a series of illustrations.

Demonstration of Eating, Licking and Drinking

When producers had trouble locating a specific image in picture libraries maintained by the National Geographic Society, the United Nations, NASA and Sports Illustrated , they composed their own. To show a mouth’s functions, for instance, they staged an odd but informative photograph of a woman licking an ice-cream cone, a man taking a bite out of a sandwich and a man drinking water cascading from a jug.

Olympic Sprinters

Images were selected for the record based not on aesthetics but on the amount of information they conveyed and the clarity with which they did so. It might seem strange, given the constraints on space, that a photograph of Olympic sprinters racing on a track made the cut. But the photograph shows various races of humans, the musculature of the human leg and a form of both competition and entertainment.

Photographs of huts, houses and cityscapes give an overview of the types of buildings seen on Earth. The Taj Mahal was chosen as an example of the more impressive architecture. The majestic mausoleum prevailed over cathedrals, Mayan pyramids and other structures in part because Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan built it in honor of his late wife, Mumtaz Mahal, and not a god.

Golden Gate Bridge

Three-quarters of the record was devoted to music, so visual art was less of a priority. A couple of photographs by the legendary landscape photographer Ansel Adams were selected, however, for the details captured within their frames. One, of the Golden Gate Bridge from nearby Baker Beach, was thought to clearly show how a suspension bridge connected two pieces of land separated by water. The hum of an automobile was included in the record’s sound montage, but the producers were not able to overlay the sounds and images.

A Page from a Book

An excerpt from a book would give extraterrestrials a glimpse of our written language, but deciding on a book and then a single page within that book was a massive task. For inspiration, Lomberg perused rare books, including a first-folio Shakespeare, an elaborate edition of Chaucer from the Renaissance and a centuries-old copy of Euclid’s  Elements  (on geometry), at the Cornell University Library. Ultimately, he took MIT astrophysicist Philip Morrison’s suggestion: a  page  from Sir Isaac Newton’s  System of the World , where the means of launching an object into orbit is described for the very first time.

Greeting from Nick Sagan

To keep with the spirit of the project, says Ferris, the wordings of the 55 greetings were left up to the speakers of the languages. In  Burmese , the message was a simple, “Are you well?” In  Indonesian , it was, “Good night ladies and gentlemen. Goodbye and see you next time.” A woman speaking the Chinese dialect of  Amoy  uttered a welcoming, “Friends of space, how are you all? Have you eaten yet? Come visit us if you have time.” It is interesting to note that the final greeting, in  English , came from then-6-year-old Nick Sagan, son of Carl and Linda Salzman Sagan. He said, “Hello from the children of planet Earth.”

Whale Greeting

Biologist Roger Payne provided a whale song (“the most beautiful whale greeting,” he said, and “the one that should last forever”) captured with hydrophones off the coast of Bermuda in 1970. Thinking that perhaps the whale song might make more sense to aliens than to humans, Ferris wanted to include more than a slice and so mixed some of the song behind the greetings in different languages. “That strikes some people as hilarious, but from a bandwidth standpoint, it worked quite well,” says Ferris. “It doesn’t interfere with the greetings, and if you are interested in the whale song, you can extract it.”

Reportedly, the trickiest sound to record was a  kiss . Some were too quiet, others too loud, and at least one was too disingenuous for the team’s liking. Music producer Jimmy Iovine kissed his arm. In the end, the kiss that landed on the record was actually one that Ferris planted on Ann Druyan’s cheek.

Druyan had the idea to record a person’s brain waves, so that should extraterrestrials millions of years into the future have the technology, they could decode the individual’s thoughts. She was the guinea pig. In an hour-long session hooked to an EEG at New York University Medical Center, Druyan meditated on a series of prepared thoughts. In  Murmurs of Earth , she admits that “a couple of irrepressible facts of my own life” slipped in. She and Carl Sagan had gotten engaged just days before, so a love story may very well be documented in her neurological signs. Compressed into a minute-long segment, the  brain waves  sound, writes Druyan, like a “string of exploding firecrackers.”

Georgian Chorus—“Tchakrulo”

The team discovered a beautiful recording of “Tchakrulo” by Radio Moscow and wanted to include it, particularly since Georgians are often credited with introducing polyphony, or music with two or more independent melodies, to the Western world. But before the team members signed off on the tune, they had the lyrics translated. “It was an old song, and for all we knew could have celebrated bear-baiting,” wrote Ferris in  Murmurs of Earth . Sandro Baratheli, a Georgian speaker from Queens, came to the rescue. The word “tchakrulo” can mean either “bound up” or “hard” and “tough,” and the song’s narrative is about a peasant protest against a landowner.

Chuck Berry’s “Johnny B. Goode”

According to Ferris, Carl Sagan had to warm up to the idea of including Chuck Berry’s 1958 hit “Johnny B. Goode” on the record, but once he did, he defended it against others’ objections. Folklorist Alan Lomax was against it, arguing that rock music was adolescent. “And Carl’s brilliant response was, ‘There are a lot of adolescents on the planet,’” recalls Ferris.

On April 22, 1978,  Saturday Night Live  spoofed the Golden Record in a  skit  called “Next Week in Review.” Host Steve Martin played a psychic named Cocuwa, who predicted that  Time  magazine would reveal, on the following week’s cover, a four-word message from aliens. He held up a mock cover, which read, “Send More Chuck Berry.”

More than four decades later, Ferris has no regrets about what the team did or did not include on the record. “It means a lot to have had your hand in something that is going to last a billion years,” he says. “I recommend it to everybody. It is a healthy way of looking at the world.”

According to the writer, NASA approached him about producing another record but he declined. “I think we did a good job once, and it is better to let someone else take a shot,” he says.

So, what would you put on a record if one were being sent into space today?

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The Voyager Golden Record Finally Finds An Earthly Audience

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The Voyager Golden Record remained mostly unavailable and unheard, until a Kickstarter campaign finally brought the sounds to human ears. Ozma Records/LADdesign hide caption

The Voyager Golden Record remained mostly unavailable and unheard, until a Kickstarter campaign finally brought the sounds to human ears.

The Golden Record is basically a 90-minute interstellar mixtape — a message of goodwill from the people of Earth to any extraterrestrial passersby who might stumble upon one of the two Voyager spaceships at some point over the next couple billion years.

But since it was made 40 years ago, the sounds etched into those golden grooves have gone mostly unheard, by alien audiences or those closer to home.

"The Voyager records are the farthest flung objects that humans have ever created," says Timothy Ferris, a veteran science and music journalist and the producer of the Golden Record. "And they're likely to be the longest lasting, at least in the 20th century."

In the late 1970s, Ferris was recruited by his friend, astronomer Carl Sagan, to join a team of scientists, artists and engineers to help create two engraved golden records to accompany NASA's Voyager mission — which would eventually send a pair of human spacecraft beyond the outer rings of the solar system for the first time in history.

Carl Sagan And Ann Druyan's Ultimate Mix Tape

Ferris was tasked with the technical aspects of getting the various media onto the physical LP, and with helping to select the music. In addition to greetings in dozens of languages and messages from leading statesmen, the records also contained a sonic history of planet Earth and photographs encoded into the record's grooves. But mostly, it was music.

"We were gathering a representation of the music of the entire earth," Ferris says. "That's an incredible wealth of great stuff."

Ferris and his colleagues worked together to sift through Earth's enormous discography to decide which pieces of sound would best represent our planet. They really only had two criteria: "One was: Let's cast a wide net. Let's try to get music from all over the planet," he says. "And secondly: Let's make a good record."

That meant late nights of listening sessions while "almost physically drowning in records," Ferris says.

The final selection, which was engraved in copper and plated in gold, included opera, rock 'n' roll, blues, classical music and field recordings selected by ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax .

When Voyager 1 and its identical sister craft Voyager 2 launched in 1977, each carried a gold record titled T he Sounds Of Earth that contained a selection of recordings of life and culture on Earth. The cover contains instructions for any extraterrestrial being wishing to play the record. NASA/Getty Images hide caption

When Voyager 1 and its identical sister craft Voyager 2 launched in 1977, each carried a gold record titled T he Sounds Of Earth that contained a selection of recordings of life and culture on Earth. The cover contains instructions for any extraterrestrial being wishing to play the record.

Ferris says that from the very start, many people on the production team expected and hoped for the record to be commercially released soon after the launch of Voyager.

"Carl Sagan tried to interest labels in releasing Voyager," Ferris says. "It never worked."

Ferris says that's likely because the music rights were owned by several different record labels who were hesitant to share the bill. So — except for a limited CD-ROM release in the early 1990s — the record went largely unheard by the wider world.

David Pescovitz, an editor at technology news website Boing Boing and a research director at the nonprofit Institute for the Future, was seven years old when the Voyager spacecraft launched.

"When you're seven years old and you hear that a group of people created a phonograph record as a message for possible extraterrestrials and launched it on a grand tour of the solar system," says Pescovitz, "it sparks the imagination."

A couple years ago, Pescovitz and his friend Tim Daly, a record store manager at Amoeba Music in San Francisco, decided to collaborate on bringing the Golden Record to an earthbound audience.

Pescovitz approached his former graduate school professor — none other than Ferris, the Golden Record's original producer — about the project, and Ferris gave his blessing, with one important caveat.

Voyagers' Records Wait for Alien Ears

"You can't release a record without remastering it," says Ferris. "And you can't remaster without locating the master."

That turned out to be a taller order than expected. The original records were mastered in a CBS studio, which was later acquired by Sony — and the master tapes had descended into Sony's vaults.

Pescovitz enlisted the company's help in searching for the master tapes; in the meantime, he and Daly got to work acquiring the rights for the music and photographs that comprised the original. They also reached out to surviving musicians whose work had been featured on the record to update incomplete track information.

Finally, Pescovitz and Daly got word that one of Sony's archivists had found the master tapes.

Pescovitz remembers the moment he, Daly and Ferris traveled to Sony's Battery Studios in New York City to hear the tapes for the first time.

"They hit play, and the sounds of the Solomon Islands pan pipes and Bach and Chuck Berry and the blues washed over us," Pescovitz says. "It was a very moving and sublime experience."

Daly says that, in remastering the album, the team decided not to clean up the analog artifacts that had made their way onto the original master tapes, in order to preserve the record's authenticity down to its imperfections.

"We wanted it to be a true representation of what went up," Daly says.

Pescovitz and Daly teamed up with Lawrence Azerrad, a graphic designer who has made record packaging for the likes of Sting and Wilco , to design a luxuriant box set, complete with a coffee table book of photographs and, of course, tinted vinyl.

"I mean, if you do a golden record box set, you have to do it on gold vinyl," Daly says.

They put the project on Kickstarter and expected to sell it mostly to vinyl collectors, space nerds and audiophiles — but they underestimated the appeal.

"The internet was just on fire, talking about this thing," Daly says.

They blew past their initial funding goal in two days, eventually raising more than $1.3 million dollars, making it the most successful musical Kickstarter campaign ever. Among the initial 11,000 contributors were family members of NASA's original Voyager mission team.

An Alien View Of Earth

Last week, Ferris got his box set in the mail. He says that his friend, the late Carl Sagan, would be delighted by what they made.

"I think this record exceeds Carl's — not only his expectations, but probably his highest hopes for a release of the Voyager record," Ferris says. "I'm glad these folks were finally able to make it happen."

Pescovitz says he's just glad to have returned the Golden Record to the world that created it.

At a moment of political division and media oversaturation, Pescovitz and Daly say they hope that their Golden Record can offer a chance for people to slow down for a moment; to gather around the turntable and bask in the crackly sounds of what Sagan called the "pale blue dot" that we call home.

"As much as it was a gift from humanity to the cosmos, it was really a gift to humanity as well," Pescovitz says. "It's a reminder of what we can accomplish when we're at our best."

Images on the Golden Record

The following is a listing of pictures electronically placed on the phonograph records which are carried onboard the Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft. The contents of the record were selected for NASA by a committee chaired by Carl Sagan of Cornell University, et. al. Dr. Sagan and his associates assembled 115 images and a variety of natural sounds, such as those made by surf, wind and thunder, birds, whales, and other animals. To this they added musical selections from different cultures and eras, and spoken greetings from Earth-people in fifty-five languages, and printed messages from President Carter and U.N. Secretary General Waldheim. Each record is encased in a protective aluminum jacket, together with a cartridge and a needle. Instructions, in symbolic language, explain the origin of the spacecraft and indicate how the record is to be played. The 115 images are encoded in analog form. The remainder of the record is in audio, designed to be played at 16-2/3 revolutions per minute. It contains the spoken greetings, beginning with Akkadian, which was spoken in Sumer about six thousand years ago, and ending with Wu, a modern Chinese dialect. Following the section on the sounds of Earth, there is an eclectic 90-minute selection of music, including both Eastern and Western classics and a variety of ethnic music. Once the Voyager spacecraft leave the solar system, they will find themselves in empty space. It will be forty thousand years before they make a close approach to any other planetary system.

A list of images included on The Golden Record, but are not viewable, is listed at the bottom of  this page .

• Due to copyright restrictions, only a subset of the images on the Golden Record are displayed above.
• All of these images are copyright protected. Reproduction without permission of the copyright holder is prohibited.

List of additional images, not featured in gallery, but exist on The Golden Record:

• The Sun, Hale observatories
• Cells and cell division, Turtox/Cambosco
• Anatomy 1, World Book
• Anatomy 2, World Book
• Anatomy 3, World Book
• Anatomy 4, World Book
• Anatomy 5, World Book
• Anatomy 6, World Book
• Anatomy 7, World Book
• Anatomy 8, World Book
• Human sex organs, Sinauer Associates, Inc.
• Conception , Albert Bonniers; Forlag, Stockholm
• Fertilized ovum, Albert Bonniers; Forlag, Stockholm
• Fetus, Dr. Frank Allan
• Birth, Wayne Miller
• Father and daughter (Malaysia), David Harvey
• Group of children, Ruby Mera, UNICEF
• Family portrait, Nina Leen, Time, Inc.
• Seashore, Dick Smith
• Snake River and Grand Tetons, Ansel Adams
• Sand dunes, George Mobley
• Monument Valley, Shostal Associates, Inc.
• Forest scene with mushrooms, Bruce Dale
• Leaf, Arthur Herrick
• Fallen leaves, Jodi Cobb
• Snowflake over Sequoia, Josef Muench, R. Sisson
• Tree with daffodils, Gardens Winterthur, Winterthur Museum
• Flying insect with flowers, Borne on the Wind, Stephen Dalton
• Seashell (Xancidae), Harry N. Abrams, Inc.
• Dolphins, Thomas Nebbia
• School of fish, David Doubilet
• Tree toad, Dave Wickstrom
• Crocodile, Peter Beard
• Eagle, Donona, Taplinger Publishing Co.
• Waterhole, South African Tourist Corp.
• Jane Goodall and chimps, Vanne Morris-Goodall
• Bushmen hunters, R. Farbman, Time, Inc.
• Dancer from Bali, donna Grosvenor
• Andean girls, Joseph Scherschel
• Thailand craftsman, Dean conger
• Elephant, Peter Kunstadter
• Old man with beard and glasses (Turkey), Jonathon Blair
• Old man with dog and flowers, Bruce Baumann
• Mountain climber, Gaston Rebuffat
• Gymnast, Philip Leonian, Sports Illustrated
• Cotton harvest, Howell Walker
• Grape picker, David Moore
• Underwater scene with diver and fish, Jerry Greenberg
• Cooking fish, Cooking of Spain and Portugal, Time-Life Books
• Chinese dinner party, Time-Life Books
• Great Wall of China, H. Edward Kim
• Construction scene (Amish country), William Albert Allard
• House (New England), Robert Sisson
• House interior with artist and fire, Jim Amos
• Taj Mahal, David Carroll
• English city (Oxford), C.S. Lewis, Images of His World, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.
• Boston, Ted Spiegel
• Sydney Opera House, Mike Long
• Artisan with drill, Frank Hewlett
• Factory interior, Fred Ward
• Museum, David Cupp
• Golden Gate Bridge, Ansel Adams
• Train, Gordon Gahan
• Airport (Toronto), George Hunter
• Antarctic Expedition, Great Adventures with the National Geographic National Geographic
• Radio telescope (Westerbork, Netherlands), James Blair
• Sunset with birds, David Harvey
• String Quartet (Quartetto Italiano), Phillips Recordings

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Voyagers 1 and 2 both carry a Golden Record, intended to play the sounds of our planet for any advanced extraterrestrials who might one day find a lonely spacecraft and wonder what the people who built it were like. The sound files—which include animals, vehicles, music, and more—were already available individually on the NASA Voyager website . Now that they're on Soundcloud, though, you can enjoy them as the full playlist they were intended to be:

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Hear the Eerie Sounds of Interstellar Space Captured by NASA’s Voyager

By Jet Propulsion Laboratory May 12, 2021

An illustration depicting one of NASA’s twin Voyager spacecraft. Both Voyagers have entered interstellar space, or the space outside our Sun’s heliosphere. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

As NASA’s Voyager 1 Surveys Interstellar Space, Its Density Measurements Are Making Waves

In the sparse collection of atoms that fills interstellar space, Voyager 1 has measured a long-lasting series of waves where it previously only detected sporadic bursts.

Until recently, every spacecraft in history had made all of its measurements inside our heliosphere, the magnetic bubble inflated by our Sun. But on August 25, 2012, NASA ’s Voyager 1 changed that. As it crossed the heliosphere’s boundary , it became the first human-made object to enter – and measure – interstellar space. Now eight years into its interstellar journey, a close listen of Voyager 1’s data is yielding new insights into what that frontier is like.

If our heliosphere is a ship sailing interstellar waters, Voyager 1 is a life raft just dropped from the deck, determined to survey the currents. For now, any rough waters it feels are mostly from our heliosphere’s wake. But farther out, it will sense the stirrings from sources deeper in the cosmos. Eventually, our heliosphere’s presence will fade from its measurements completely.

This graphic from October 20218 shows the position of the Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 probes relative to the heliosphere, a protective bubble created by the Sun that extends well past the orbit of Pluto. Voyager 1 crossed the heliopause, or the edge of the heliosphere, in 2012. Voyager 2 is still in the heliosheath, or the outermost part of the heliosphere. (NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft entered interstellar space in November 2018 .) Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

“We have some ideas about how far Voyager will need to get to start seeing more pure interstellar waters, so to speak,” said Stella Ocker, a Ph.D. student at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, and the newest member of the Voyager team. “But we’re not entirely sure when we’ll reach that point.”

Ocker’s new study, published on Monday in Nature Astronomy , reports what may be the first continuous measurement of the density of material in interstellar space. “This detection offers us a new way to measure the density of interstellar space and opens up a new pathway for us to explore the structure of the very nearby interstellar medium,” Ocker said.

When one pictures the stuff between the stars – astronomers call it the “interstellar medium,” a spread-out soup of particles and radiation – one might reimagine a calm, silent, serene environment. That would be a mistake.

“I have used the phrase ‘the quiescent interstellar medium’ – but you can find lots of places that are not particularly quiescent,” said Jim Cordes, space physicist at Cornell and co-author of the paper.

Like the ocean, the interstellar medium is full of turbulent waves. The largest come from our galaxy’s rotation, as space smears against itself and sets forth undulations tens of light-years across. Smaller (though still gigantic) waves rush from supernova blasts, stretching billions of miles from crest to crest. The smallest ripples are usually from our own Sun, as solar eruptions send shockwaves through space that permeate our heliosphere’s lining.

These crashing waves reveal clues about the density of the interstellar medium – a value that affects our understanding of the shape of our heliosphere, how stars form, and even our own location in the galaxy. As these waves reverberate through space, they vibrate the electrons around them, which ring out at characteristic frequencies depending on how crammed together they are. The higher the pitch of that ringing, the higher the electron density. Voyager 1’s Plasma Wave Subsystem – which includes two “bunny ear” antennas sticking out 30 feet (10 meters) behind the spacecraft – was designed to hear that ringing.

An illustration of NASA’s Voyager spacecraft showing the antennas used by the Plasma Wave Subsystem and other instruments. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

In November 2012, three months after exiting the heliosphere, Voyager 1 heard interstellar sounds for the first time (see video above). Six months later, another “whistle” appeared – this time louder and even higher pitched. The interstellar medium appeared to be getting thicker, and quickly.

These momentary whistles continue at irregular intervals in Voyager’s data today. They’re an excellent way to study the interstellar medium’s density, but it does take some patience.

“They’ve only been seen about once a year, so relying on these kinds of fortuitous events meant that our map of the density of interstellar space was kind of sparse,” Ocker said.

Ocker set out to find a running measure of interstellar medium density to fill in the gaps – one that doesn’t depend on the occasional shockwaves propagating out from the Sun. After filtering through Voyager 1’s data, looking for weak but consistent signals, she found a promising candidate. It started to pick up in mid-2017, right around the time of another whistle.

“It’s virtually a single tone,” said Ocker. “And over time, we do hear it change – but the way the frequency moves around tells us how the density is changing.”

Weak but nearly continuous plasma oscillation events – visible as a thin red line in this graphic/tk – connect stronger events in Voyager 1’s Plasma Wave Subsystem data. The image alternates between graphs showing only the strong signals (blue background) and the filtered data showing weaker signals. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Stella Ocker

Ocker calls the new signal a plasma wave emission, and it, too, appeared to track the density of interstellar space. When the abrupt whistles appeared in the data, the tone of the emission rises and falls with them. The signal also resembles one observed in Earth’s upper atmosphere that’s known to track with the electron density there.

“This is really exciting, because we are able to regularly sample the density over a very long stretch of space, the longest stretch of space that we have so far,” said Ocker. “This provides us with the most complete map of the density and the interstellar medium as seen by Voyager.”

Based on the signal, electron density around Voyager 1 started rising in 2013 and reached its current levels about mid-2015, a roughly 40-fold increase in density. The spacecraft appears to be in a similar density range, with some fluctuations, through the entire dataset they analyzed which ended in early 2020.

Ocker and her colleagues are currently trying to develop a physical model of how the plasma wave emission is produced that will be key to interpreting it. In the meantime, Voyager 1’s Plasma Wave Subsystem keeps sending back data farther and farther from home, where every new discovery has the potential to make us reimagining our home in the cosmos.

For more on this research, read In the Emptiness of Space 14 Billion Miles Away, Voyager I Detects “Hum” From Plasma Waves .

Reference: “Persistent plasma waves in interstellar space detected by Voyager 1” by Stella Koch Ocker, James M. Cordes, Shami Chatterjee, Donald A. Gurnett, William S. Kurth and Steven R. Spangler, 10 May 2021, Nature Astronomy . DOI: 10.1038/s41550-021-01363-7

The Voyager spacecraft were built by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which continues to operate both. JPL is a division of Caltech in Pasadena. The Voyager missions are a part of the NASA Heliophysics System Observatory, sponsored by the Heliophysics Division of the Science Mission Directorate in Washington.

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106 comments on "hear the eerie sounds of interstellar space captured by nasa’s voyager".

Hope someone loops the sample between the two high pitched spots. From 32 second to 36 second marks. Seem like a great mask for tinnitus pitch around 21 kHz.

Wow! It sure would! My tinnitus is really quite bad, but I almost couldn’t hear it during those few seconds.

Where is the sound?

In the video?

Don’t be a jackass Conrad

I thought there was no sound in space. I also thought nothing not even light can escape a black hole, yet they always report that black holes are emitting Jets of gamma rays and other stuff.

It is a radio wave, which happens to lie on an audible frequency (but else it is a popular presentation nowadays to translate frequency signals to sound).

Perhaps the paper title says it best: “Persistent plasma waves in interstellar space detected by Voyager 1”, The article is dumbing it down – I had to read the then no-paywall paper to understand what they see (and IIRC they find it likeliest that the nearest star is causing the emission, which is exciting).

Nothing comes out of a black hole. The gamma rays you mention are from materials just outside the black hole. Material falling into the black hole are accelerated to high speeds, and they collide with each other creating high temperatures. Those hot materials emit the radiation.

And you beleive all that bs.. lmbo

The only bs I am sure of is the uninformed tinfoil hat nonsense being typed by a few dunderheads hell bent on curing their fear of the unknown.

We will continue to follow the scientific method, you continue to type lmbo over and over like a demented parrot.

Sound cannot travel thru the vaccuum of space

As radio waves, it can.

Space is fake. Nothing can travel though fakery. Lmbo People sure love their space monkey fantasies. There is water above us and the Controllers dam well know this

Radiation can travel in a vacuum. Think of it like this. The suns sends its radiation out to through space, when the radiation hits our atmosphere it is converted and Thea Seth is warm compared to space. Radio waves are radiation. There is no sound if you were in space and the radio waves passed by. There must be something that receive that radiation and convert it to sound. For instance you can walk outside and you will not hear a huge garbled sound of all televisions and all radio stations. Even when you are not in a vacuum you don’t hear the radiation of tv and radio signals. You have to have some device that can “catch” the radiation and convert it into sound like an FM or AM radio station. Only your radio can catch that radiation and convert it into sound. Of course it is a little more to it than that, but hopefully helps your head to wrap around the idea. Radiation needs no medium to travel through, like our conventional sound waves from knocking on a door. Radiation travels through a vacuum.

Omg..were you taught that BS lie in school or is that your own theory?. lmbo

Just had to listen, being a common mortal, and so far away from interstellar space! Another first for NASA’s JPL and I will assume that there are many more pleasant surprises in store for all of us to marvel at. The whistling hum; way-spacey! Enjoy.

My tinnitus is annoying me extremely right now. I’m willing to try anything!

If you are serious about having tinnitus, there are effective treatments. Usually you see an Ears Nose and Throat specialists. Mine got really bad in the 1990s. There were different treatments then, and I imagine more so today. What worked for me was “attenuation therapy”. They give a hearing aid like device that emitted a white noise which covered up the ringing. Eventually, my brain started to tune out the constant white noise. It took a while, but once my brain tuned out the white noise the ringing was tuned out. My quality of life vastly improved. In the beginning they actually put a very tiny microphone into my ear canal to see if there really any noise. There wasn’t, so they new they were dealing with real tinnitus and not a structural deportation. My primary doc kept telling me there was nothing you could do about it. He was wrong. There are doctors who specialize just in tinnitus.

The first ‘blast’of sound of plasma is the initial shock wave; the second is the second is the true sound yet echoing.

Sounds a little agitated.

Humpback whale song

People actually believe this?

I said the same thing..fakery for sure.

And people actually buy this bs as real. Lmbo

It’s remarkable we are still receiving science data from these OLD, relatively primitive machines. They are sending extremely weak signals across billions of miles and we can still hear them. Amazing.

And, of course we hear from the deniers who immediately doubt anything they don’t understand. Surprised they haven’t accidentally fallen off the edge of the Earth.

And you actually beleive it? Lmbo

You call us deniars. I was indoctintated just like you all my life. Programmed. It’s time to come to reality friend. They have been deceiving us. We are not a spinning marble with water miraculously sticking to us like glue. Ridiculous in itself. Goes against your senses anyway. There is water above us and they dam well know it. They cannot and will not ever get past the firmament. You have been programmed all your life to beleive this and most will not research past their noses. They like being fooled

Indeed. It’s amazing they leave the house with pants on quite honestly.

You make jokes about the edge of the earth…lol And there is an obvious ice wall around us. Of course you will say that’s not so. But it dam well is. And the leaders of the world know it. The Antarctic treaty. Where you and I cannot go. But you will beleive something much more fairly talish like a spinning marble rotating a 1000 mph miraculously holding water to while moving 67,000 mph through space..lmbo fairy tail much

Yeah that’s called gravity school boy ,,plus untill you get on a plane and flys around the earth dont talk your stupid ideals …that’s all u have is a ideal to run with

And you beleivethe bs… dam you people are indoctrinated and or programmed. Think for yourself and use common sense

Science is about testing hypotheses and changing those hypotheses if the data doesn’t support it. So prove it. Go find your ice wall. Don’t come back until you do.

Just go to the Antarctic. That’s your Ice wall..go north south east or west and you will run into it. You beleive in spinning marble but an ice wall in somehow out of the question. I laugh at you people There is no OUTER SPACE. You have been fooled.

Sounded ok until the end bit then it went high pitch I squinted too but like other comments we are not spinning on a ball it tells you in Genesis job and few more scriptures they only brought a globe into our heads cuz of copernicus but ancient tribes allsaid and showed earth was flat.anyway no stars are under earth no rain can fall up!!

When your actually out of grade school and have a clue what your saying…try putting anything like water or a ball of dirt ina vacuum and wait and watch how gravity forces all. Matter into it’s most simist form and that’s a ball just like the moon and sun you dummy

Joe keep up the desperate antics that make no dam sense. The earth is not a spinning magic marble and gravity is man made bulls#!t lie

I know you did not just say that bunch of BS…did you? Common sense should prevail. The world is so dumbed down by the lies/programming of these luciferians that cant see two feet in front of them. You included. We laugh at you. You are the ones in the fairytale.

I was talking to you Joe

In space nobody can hear you scream “bulls#!t’

It’s turtles all the way down Pfft. Fools.

I can’t believe you kids—gravity holds water to this blue & green ball. And no, the Earth is not flat. THAT is ridiculous

Oh. You mean that made up bunch garbage to fit their scientific theory? Gravity is joke. Pure fantasy. And you accuse commonsense of being crazy. A flat plain just sounds so crazy…lmbo. But magic gravity sounds so logical…lmbo Get out of your programming

Ya know all that crap about nothing can escape a black hole is only a theory plus how do they know if atoms or light photons are jus bouncing off the event HORIZON and. Your so called hole is actually some giant natural collider that creates new particles out of old stuff!

Oh my goodness Joe. You beleive in theories? Lmbo And Accuse us of being in grade school. Can you please stop repeating like a parrot what the liars taught you in school. Think for yourself and look up in the sky and start researching yourself. You wont. Cause you like being spoonfed BS.

Seems like an odd way to lie about something (intricate, detailed, boring, scientific terminology)… To no real end goal, as the ‘stories’ of space don’t ask or persuade me to any specific task.

People that actually deny science never seem to have any method to prove their own beliefs… I guess that’s because they would need to provide some type of evidence, maybe with some odd method, maybe call it (schnience)

You mean psuedoscience

Nice Masonic pose in your picture

JY you can go to Antarctica. It not off limits. Those countries signed that treaty to prevent military bases from being build. The world doesn’t have some weird water ring around it? Lmao. Where the hell did you gear that? History channel (Ancient Aliens) Or do you study scientology? World is flat?

Quick question? What does the science community gain by saying Voyager is picking up radiation waves? Nothing. It makes no difference to our everyday lives. What does the (plasma wave subsystem antennas) do on Voyager? What’s your degree in? Stop acting like everything is a conspiracy theory. You know nothing and ONLY follow conspiracy theories. Attach others when they challenge you. JY you are lame

You are so full of sh*t..no you cannot go to the Antarctic. Only on tours…lmbo Where they say you can go…you programmed fool…

You are a programmed fool…lmbo They gain control by keeping the masses dumbed down. You lame excuse for a supposed educated person. Lmbo I am so sick and tired of trying to wake your asses up to these luciferian controllers. With their satanic ball earth. You cannot go freely to the Antarctic you idiot. You can only tour where they will let you. Lmbo Dam you people are dumb as rocks and clueless. Try going there by yourself you fool and walking around. Lmbo.

To boldly go for no man has gone before… One big leap for men one giant leap for all…..

Lmao sound in a supposed vacuum. If you buy into this they have a bridge to sell you

JY is a hilarious troll so many people falling into the trap.

No…I am awake. You are either the real troll or part a programmed fool.

These people like JY that claim this is fake are scary. They are seriously messed up and need YEARS of therapy. YEARS. Amazing still they use GPS, Watch TV, and enjoy the internet never realizing that is because 9f SATELLITES in SPACE. Wow special kind of ignorant.

And we wonder why the WORLD laughs at us? We wonder how losers like Taylor Greene and Trump get elected? It’s because of simple minded ignorance like this guy. And of the Earth was flat, how would a plane fly die East and end up on the West Coast? Or are airplanes now a hoax and the devil?

You need help.

I dont watch TV and ththe internet has nothing to do satellites. It has everything to do with cell tower and under water cables. You are so smart. Let see. The earth is spinning 1000 mph. The satellite TV connects to the satellite moving 17,000 mph… somehow stays connected to it when it moves to the other side if the world. Lol…you people are the crazy ones to beleive the bulls#!t. Use your dam common sense. Cell towers people. Not satellites. They are lieing to us. I am awake to the scam. And by the way. GOD is real. And you better wake up. The devil and real and he is fooling you. And you beleive the opposite of way you should. Common sense tells you we are stable and not moving. Wow. What a bunch of programmed fools.

I dont watch TV and ththe internet has nothing to do satellites. It has everything to do with cell tower and under water cables. You are so smart. Let see. The earth is spinning 1000 mph. The satellite TV connects to the satellite moving 17,000 mph… somehow stays connected to it when it moves to the other side if the world. Lol…you people are the crazy ones to beleive the bulls#!t. Use your dam common sense. Cell towers people. Not satellites. They are lieing to us. I am awake to the scam. And by the way. GOD is real. And you better wake up. And you beleive the opposite of way you should. Common sense tells you we are stable and not moving. Wow. What a bunch of programmed fools.

The amount of anti-science people on this page is astounding. JY is the moon flat? Is Mars flat too? The Earth is a globe. People can and do visit Antarctica on their own. The only thing stopping you as an individual is money. Use enough amd take whatever supplies you will need and book the ship time. The Earth is round. Proven time and time again using different methods of science and math. Not one of you flat earth people can back up your claims in legitimate math or science. Curvature of the earth is a real thing. Plasma particles being translated into audio is rather simple. Stars do put off radio waves which can be translated into audible sounds as well.

It has not been proven time and time again. That is nothing but a lie. It gets so tiring with people like you making comments like it been proven that the earth is spinning 1000 mph whirling 67,000 mph through infinite nothing. That is such a lie. It’s all theory and make up bulls#!t. That’s your may of continuing the programming of their minds. It’s pure programming and indoctrination.

Mars is really just a desert on earth you programmed little boy.

You sure believe alot BS. Dont you? Lmbo How in the world do you people let them feed you such bull*** is beyond me.. You believe their fake Masonic math lol.. Cant even get real pictures of Earth. All CGI. And you people beleive these liars. Curvature has not been proven at all. Its smoke and mirrors. Fish eyed lenses. And if you calculate the math they use it doesn’t even add up anyway.lol All I see I flat land. No dam curvature at all. The dam problem is the programming of weak minds that think they are wise. You have no wisdom at all. You are a fed machine that only follows instructions with any reasoning or common sense

I’m glad you enjoyed the song. Now get back to work!

Idiots!!!!!

TY, you sound like the only one that is programmed. So everything to you is a hoax? Guess there is no sun either? I mean, how could a ball of fire remain in a circle? Or is the sun flat too? Your brainwashed. Good luck with your fantasy.

You poor brainwashed soul. I wish I could wake you guys up. But it hopeless for the majority of this programmed world

TY. Who programmed you ? You are clueless. Never take a long walk, you’ll fall off. But where? There’s nothing there, right? So the Sun must be flat too. Or are we just someone’s science experiment?

I have common sense…lol No one programmed me….a spinning marble hurdling through infinite nothing moving at ungodly speeds through the vacuum of space..lmbo ridiculous. That makes so much more sense them a flare non moving plain. I can see with my own eyes we are not moving. You are programmed

The Sun and moon are both lights. They give off there own light. But you beleive this stupid made up bs that the sun light reflects off the moon. Totally ridiculous. But then the programmed minds beleive anything. Once again common sense should prevail

If light can travel through space, I can’t see why sounds can also. If anything can I believe sounds can, but die off at some point.

Be sure that your thinking doesnt fall flat. The world Is round.Some things cant be fully shared until they are more in the known than guessing. But in reality,unless you sitting in the craft we have to trust the judgement of those interpreting the data. Give them a break at least some one on the blue marble is thinking outside The Box, or in this case outside the Bubble.

Sorry buddy the blue marble is a satanic lie. Your senses tell you something else. Look up in the sky. We are not moving. Foolishness.

Sorry my mistake after doing some actual research the earth is round and space does exist

Nice try the fake JY…

Simply fascinating!

JY was more interesting than the initial article. I feel I that I really want to learn more about his logic and his world. Feels like we are all different beings living in the same space time but somehow in different brain realities.

My life is pretty boring with normal ppl …I ve never heard in my life someone refering the moon and sun as light…still they are round. When I was a kid I enjoyed watching the boats at see and after a while they disappear. I have been wondering about that since then I am sure the real JY will tell me why everyone can see boats disappear once the go far away from the sea. Usually water is not round so why how do boats disappear on the horizon??

Read your Bible science man. Its says the moon and Sun are both lights. Makes perfect sense to me. You expect me to beleive you have never heard that before? Lmbo Your pseudoscience is your god/religon. All fakery and made up bs that makes no logical sense but people buy it as real. Your senses tell you something totally different science man. You can clearly see we are not moving and you can clearly see water finds its level. So go crawl back under your rock and continue your brainwashing.

Btw Science man. You can easily use a P900 camera and pull the boat right back into view. So if it went over the Horizon or supposed fake curve then you would not be able to bring it back it to view but you can. Btw. Have you ever heard of perspective? Science fiction people only use it when it benefits their cause. The earth is a Plain with nice mountains and valleys. Its circular just like the Bible says. Not a spinning hurdling water ball. Lmbo

Yet you beleive in a spinning water ball…moving though infinite nothing at ungodly speeds while spinning 1000 mph. And I beleive in MAGIC…lmbo Woe to the hypocrites of pseudoscience bs.

Whoever this jy is, you are a credit to stupidity. Since you dont understand science at any level, please stop wasting everyone’s time by showing your infinite ignorance and get back to your xbox and blunts like a good little boy. We are all privileged to be witness to a connection beyond our solar domain. P.S. jy, that means our solar system.

You mean credit to common sense and logic. Thank you very much

JY I have red the Bible a few times and a few versions too. Which one are u reading?

Its full of nice stories like people that can live inside a fish. A dude that walks on water. Women go gets converted into a statue. Cities that crumble because a magical box. I use to believe in all this stuff cause I was a kid and was living in a city that every one believe it… But I also believed in Santa Claus and unicorns and Peter Pan…we also have books for those stories.

All books made. Written and reprinted by men.

Bible is a bit outdated cause that God allows slavery..and violence. It also seems to favor men over women so not really a team player but really like the first miracle… Multiple the wine… That’s a strong message out all possible things that could be done to fix this world he choses as his first miracle to produce more wine… Each time someone says something when I am drinking…I remind them that wine is approved by God. Not only approved but he wanted everyone to drink more otherwise why produce more? That is a strong message to send to the humans and for eternity.

I don’t know how hell looks like but I am sure there must be good wine in heaven 🙂

Well when I was a kid red as a kid…I walked like a kid and I believed magical stories like Santa…but eventually I grew up and learn to read other books and think for myself and I don’t need to believe in Santa anymore to enjoy Christmas or to believe in unicorns to enjoy movies and stories… neither I need Bibles to live my life in a respectful and healthy way. And I don’t need heaven or hell to understand what is constructive or destructive. It’s nice to see that some ppl still believe in magic even as adults…I wonder if u write letters to Santa and think there’s a magical world waiting for your somewhere…but you need to send 200 000 comments on the internets before you’re allowed in??

Wait a minute Mr. 666…Who believes in magic? A spinning marble hurdling through infinite nothing while water sticks to it seems a little more like magic than a flat non moving plain. Lmbo Where you can observe with your own eyes that we are spinning 1000mph. Lmbo…BTW Santa Claus is really Satan Claus. Unscramble the word. Your Masonic 666 brothers made up the satanic ball earth and Santa/satan claus. Either you are asleep and indoctrinated/programmed like 99 percent of the world or your are a Masonic troll. There is a God brother. It’s funny how you believe Faith all bulls#!t fed to you by the liars but somehow God and a creator is crazy to you…Wow. It’s obvious there is a Creator. Intelligent design all around you…A fool beleives in his own heart that there is not a God. Now wake up before die and face judgment.

You can believe or not believe in God. You have a free will. Take your chances. Forfeiting your soul for an eternity is forever my friend. A fool beleives in his own that there is not a God. Creation is in your face. To act like you dont see it is dumb.

JY I don’t need to believe in any God to find a purpose and be happy and don’t care about paradises or hell I have enough with one.

Ppl that need to believe in God’s are weak. They can’t face reality just like kids …they need Santa…some ppl need God’s to stay stable and live through reality. You were endoctrinated by your mommy n now that endoctrination makes you feel good. It is ok not being able to go against what mommy told you. That would mean pain. Just like facing reality that u will never see ppl that died is painful. Painful like you will also die like everyone else and nobody will care cause we’re only dust in the wind my friend. So which story is the painful one? Face the painful reality takes courage and one needs to be strong to accept it. Thinking that there’s a magical dude that will take care of all my issues and give me immortality is very easy but weak. Makes you feel good but those are just feelings. I you had more money you could buy a boat and sail around the world and see it for yourself. If u were not poor you could buy a jet and drive around and see it for yourself. If I could I would send you for a trip to space so u could see it for yourself but I don’t have 20 million yet. And you would probably refuse to go because that would mean discovering of the painful reality.

It is easier and more pleasant for me to believe in God’s than it is for u to face the painful reality. You will die playing a god and I will die reading where voyager 1 and 2 are by that time and will be thinking…what a nice ride they had and one day they will crash into a planet or a black hole. Eventually everything dies and no one comes back. But u are free to believe otherwise if that makes you feel good. But remember…those are just feelings 🙂

Die in your Sin Mr 666. Its your soul. You wont be talking like this when you are standing before the Almighty.

The earth is not a spinning water ball friend. Regardless of what you think. They are lying to us. Learn how the Elite communicate worldwide. Learn signs and symbols and numbers. Its how they speak. Once you learn their language. It’s clear what is really going on here. Stay blind and decieved. This world is literally ran on signs symbols and numerolgy. That’s also in your face. But you will never see it. You like being controlled. The Elite of decievers are at the top of the pyramid. They bottom are just cattle. Good luck with you programming.

Jy you need help bro space is not fake you have to be dumb as sh*t to believe that, space is real, asteriods, there is 100% factual science, nearly 80 years of evidence by experts an scientist who most of which btw dont work for the government an whos only interest is to learn about the things around our round planet, you know what they call space, your theory has no evidence or facts or findings to back up what you say. I recommend reading a book or two do your own research space is real, planets are real, and our earth is not flat it is round. Eduacate yourself just a tip

Boy you folks dont give up. Space is FAKE. EVERYTHING NASA gives you is smoke and mirrors. I was indoctintated just like you space monkeys. I have done plenty of research on my own to see that NASA is lying to us along with all the fake space agencies around the world. Water always finds it level. I don’t give a crap what scientific rebuttal you come up with. One more time. WATER ALWAYS FINDS ITS LEVEL. The Sun and moon or local. It’s obvious to anyone awake and willing to stop being programmed by these luciferians that control the world system. I always see flat land. Gravity is impossible if you actually just use your dam common sense God gave you. It’s made up bulls#!t to fit their scientific theory. That’s all it is. You are so indoctrinated you take everthing they tell you as truth. All they give us is CGI. They lost the technology to go back to the Moon but they can travel millions of miles further to Mars…lmbo Wake up blind fools. Its funny how they have the ability to control a rover millions of miles away though a computer and when it breaks down it fixes itself.. lmbo A super machine..lol

You are programmed. You repeat like a parrot what you been fed all fed all your life.

I almost missed the video in the flood of other ads on the page.

I hope you know that sound is something like animal or humanoid being Istanbul not space sounds but it the could pin point the exact location or close by with the hubble they might find a planet with life, on it the question is thier someone thier , I recognize the sound that of a cry out

Your kidding right? Lmbo

This guy with the ice wall surrounding the earth is funny I flew around the earth it’s round and not surrounded by an ice wall.

I am sure you have.lmbo Nothing any of you programmed sheep say will ever change the fact that we do lot live on a spinning magic water ball.

Magic ice walls and magic souls that live forever floating around sounds retarded. Maybe JY is just a retarded that was brainwashed by his religious parents. Poor person…

You mean magic spinning marble moving through infinite nothing at 67,000 mph…lmbo Sound a little more like fantasy than a non moving plain. Boy you folks have logic backwards….🤣🤣🤣🤣

Keep mocking God. How do you think you got here you very foolish person? Intelligence design all around you and you choose to beleive in magic. Wow. All this came from noth in nothing. Now that’s magic.

I think NASA is bitch n fags all lairs they could go to hell where they belong

Well they are all liars and freemason/luciferians.

JY I haven’t laughed so hard in ages, thank you so much. I’m stunned you hang around on these pages to embarrass yourself, your preaching should be on the stage or street corner it’s hilarious 😆🤣😂😄! Why are you even reading articles like this if you don’t believe? Lmao! I can’t stop laughing 😆🤣😂😭! I guess the dinosaurs are also a conspiracy!? Ice walls 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣, water in the sky🤣🤣😂, I can’t take anymore my sides are aching!!! Brilliant

Putting little laughing emojis is not going to change the fact that you are a brainwashed troll. Rovers and helicopters that fix themselves and fly by remote control millions of miles away…now that deserves an emoji.🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

If JY was for real… I would pay to see this guy and his conception of universe and earth it is so far fetched and originally retarded like if he had missed the last 200 years of science LoL I ended here cause I want to read about science and space but I wonder how did JY ended here .. is he trying to convert ppl ? LoL 😂 I wonder how many people he has converted so far…in the internets lol all these lost internet souls LoL 😂

Jy is loopy

ok lets carry the discussion to another level by thinking about speed of think… i gues it will overcome the light speed obviously and ppl discussing abt illusions and/or reality as if anyone able to understand what they are we call ourselves as a human being by compare to other souls but how abt if we are also hoax dream in the dream or just a echoes of the some creature which exist at zillion light years ..conclusion GOD exist ! if not pls advise what is a spirit and how its created by who and its appearance…. we are enjoying the message comes from the location where its out of our dimensions and we are the so luckiest ones that can hear it with a single click.there may be another dimensions which control the earth but eventually all the beings are subject to return to the Creator which we call GOD .

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Voyager Captures Sounds of Interstellar Space

NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft captured these sounds of interstellar space. Voyager 1's plasma wave instrument detected the vibrations of dense interstellar plasma, or ionized gas, from October to November 2012 and April to May 2013.

The graphic shows the frequency of the waves, which indicate the density of the plasma. Colors indicate the intensity of the waves, or how "loud" they are. Red indicates the loudest waves and blue indicates the weakest.

The soundtrack reproduces the amplitude and frequency of the plasma waves as "heard" by Voyager 1. The waves detected by the instrument antennas can be simply amplified and played through a speaker. These frequencies are within the range heard by human ears.

Scientists noticed that each occurrence involved a rising tone. The dashed line indicates that the rising tones follow the same slope. This means a continuously increasing density.

When scientists extrapolated this line even further back in time (not shown), they deduced that Voyager 1 first encountered interstellar plasma in August 2012.

The Voyager spacecraft were built and continue to be operated by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, in Pasadena, Calif. Caltech manages JPL for NASA. The Voyager missions are a part of NASA's Heliophysics System Observatory, sponsored by the Heliophysics Division of the Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington.

For more information about Voyager, visit http://www.nasa.gov/voyager and http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov .

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How Voyager 1 recorded noises when there's no sound in interstellar space

Beyond the border of interstellar space, the distant Voyager 1 spacecraft called back to Earth earlier this year with noises from its new environment. It's true that the void of space does not carry sound — there's no gas or other substance to transmit the waves — but the signal Voyager detected can be played back at frequencies the human ear can understand.

NASA announced in September that Voyager 1 had left the heliosphere in August 2012. The heliosphere is a sheath of magnetic influence that emanates from the sun and expands through a stream of charged particles called the solar wind.

At the press conference, Don Gurnett, the principal investigator for Voyager 1 's plasma wave science instrument, demonstrated a series of sounds the instrument had picked up.

"Strictly speaking, the plasma wave instrument does not detect sound. Instead, it senses waves of electrons in the ionized gas or 'plasma' that Voyager travels through," NASA stated in a statement. These waves, however, do take place at frequencies that humans can detect.

"We can play the data through a loudspeaker and listen," Gurnett, a physics professor at the University of Iowa, said in the statement. "The pitch and frequency tell us about the density of gas surrounding the spacecraft." [ Hear What Voyager 1 Detected ]

Within the heliosphere, the sounds had a frequency of about 300 Hz. Once Voyager left the scene, the frequency jumped higher, to between 2 and 3 kHz, "corresponding to denser gas in the interstellar medium," according to the NASA release.

There have been at least two verified instances of these tones: October to November 2012, and April to May 2013. Both occurred after huge coronal mass ejections (material from the sun) bumped up plasma activity around Voyager 1. There was a lag before scientists discovered the recordings because the data is only played back every three to six months, NASA said, and more time is required to interpret the results.

Gurnett further speculated that "shock fronts" from beyond the solar system could be tearing through interstellar space and disturbing the plasma surrounding Voyager 1. He will be listening for any evidence of this activity in future recordings from humanity's furthest spacecraft, he said.

Follow Elizabeth Howell @howellspace , or Space.com @Spacedotcom . We're also on Facebook and Google+ . Original article on Space.com.

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News | August 1, 1977

Voyager will carry earth sounds record.

On the chance that someone is out there, NASA has approved tie placement of a phonograph record on each of two planetary spacecraft being readied far launch next month to the outer reaches of the solar system.

The recording, called "Sounds of Earth" was placed Friday (July 29) aboard the first of two Voyager spacecraft scheduled to be launched to Jupiter, Saturn and beyond.

The 12-inch. copper disc contains greetings from Earth people in 60 languages, samples of music from different cultures and eras, and natural sounds of surf, wind and thunder, and birds, whales and other animals.

The record also contains electronic information that an advanced technological civilization could convert into diagrams, pictures and printed words, including a message from President Carter.

The main Voyager objective is to conduct a detailed scientific investigation of giant Jupiter and ringed Saturn, 11 of their moons and possibly Uranus, before leaving the solar system to journey nearly endlessly among the stars.

The messages on the record were designed enable Possible extraterrestrial civilizations who might intercept the spacecraft millions of years, hence to put together some pictures of 20th century Earth and its inhabitants.

"Because space is very empty there is essentially no chance that Voyager will enter the planetary system of another star," said astronomer Carl Sagan of Cornell University. "The spacecraft will be encountered and the record played only if there are advanced spacefaring civilizations in interstellar space."

"But, as the beautiful messages from President Carter and Secretary General Waldheim indicate," he added, "the launching of this bottle into the cosmic ocean says something very hopeful about life on this planet."

The idea for the record was formulated by Sagan and the repertoire was selected by an advisory committee of prominent scientists, musicians and others. Sagan also was responsible for the plaques with a message previously sent into interstellar space aboard the Pioneer 10 and 11 spacecraft.

A phonograph record was chosen. because can carry much more information in the same space then for example the Pioneer plaques. In addition, 1977 is the 100th anniversary of the invention of the phonograph record by Thomas Alva Edison.

Each record is mace of copper and is in an aluminum protective jacket. It contains, in scientific language, information on how the record is to be played, using the cartridge and needle provided. The record begins with photographs and diagrams in analog form, depicting mathematics, chemistry, geology, and biology of the Earth, photographs of human beings of many countries, and some hint of the richness of our civilization. Included are schematics about the solar system, its dimensions and location in the Milky Way Galaxy, descriptions of DNA and human chromosomes, photographs of Earth, the Voyager launch vehicle, a large radio telescope and human beings in various settings and endeavors.

This is followed by spoken greetings in approximately 60 human languages, including a spoken message by Kurt Waldheim, Secretary General of the United Nations.

The Voyager record next includes a sound essay on the evolution of the planet Earth including sounds of weather and surf, the Earth before life, life before Man, and finally the development of human civilization.

The musical selections, which almost 90 minutes playing ~ ~e, a_~ representative of the c~ cultural d~ diversity of Earth, of many times and ,laces, and include both Eastern and Western classical music and a variety of ethnic music. Included is music from Senegal, Australia, Peru, Bulgaria, and Azerbaijan, as well as jazz and rock and roll. In the classical repertoire are compositions by Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, and Stravinsky , as well as Javanese Gamelan, Indian Raga, Japanese Skakuhachi, and Chinese Ch'in music. The entire 16 2/3 rpm record runs nearly two hours.

Because of the aluminum cover and the emptiness of interstellar space the record is likely to survive more than a billion years. Thus it represents not only a message into space but also a message into time, a point referred to in President Carter's message.

Among the members of Dr. Sagan's committee and others who played a major role in devising the Voyager record are Dr. Frank Drake, Cornell University; Dr. A. G. Cameron, Harvard University; Dr. Phillip Morrison, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Dr. Bernard Olive, Hewlett-Packard Corporation; Dr. Leslie Orgel, Salk Institute; Dr. Alan Lomax, Choreometrics Project, Columbia University; Dr. Robert Brown, Center for World Music, Berkeley, California; Murry Sidlin, National Symphony Orchestra, Washington, D.C. and artist Jon Lomberg , Toronto, Canada. The record was produced Timothy Ferris; the creative director was Ann Druyan, both of New York City.

The record was prepared for NASA as a public service by Columbia Records. Permission to use copyrighted material on the record has been given to NASA by the owners, also as a public service.

The first Voyager will be launched aboard a Titan Centaur rocket on August 20, and the second or September 1. They will arrive at Jupiter in 1979, Saturn and its rings in 1980, and possibly examine Uranus in 1986. The two spacecraft will be considered to have left the solar system when they cross the orbit of Pluto in 1989.

The Voyager spacecraft will escape the solar system at a speed of 17.2 km/sec (38,700 miles per hour), but this is a slow speed for interstellar distances. It will take at least 40,000 years before either spacecraft approaches another star - passing it at a distance of about one light year (six trillion miles). Other predictable approaches to stars will occur 147,000 and 525,000 years.

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• Date First Available ‏ : ‎ February 10, 2007
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