Ever wonder what the northern lights sound like? How about the music of storms on other planets? Professor Donald Gurnett maintains a web page (http://www-pw.physics.uiowa.edu/space-audio/) with these and other sounds generated through the radio signals from space and the magnetosphere. Professor Gurnett was recently on NPR’s Morning Edition, where I heard these sounds driving to work.
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