Music of the spheresAstronomy articles For more details on the Huygens mission, read Richard Talcott's "Titan Touchdown" (April 2005) and "
Huygens lands on Titan."
To learn more about what helioseismology tells astronomers about our star, see "Cycle of the Sun" by Gerry Byrne (June 2005).
"Cosmic music man" (July 2005) profiles Alex Szalay, a cosmologist who, like Mark Whittle, is studying Big Bang acoustics.
Print Dennis Richard Danielson's
The Book of the Cosmos: Imagining the Universe from Heraclitus to Hawking (Perseus Publishing, 2000) collects the most insightful impressions about the universe from 85 scientists, philosophers, and poets including Anaxagoras, Plato, Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler, Newton, Huygens, Halley, and Einstein.
Web Sound files and web links associated with this article are in the online extra for "
Music of the spheres."
For more on the Mars microphone, see the project
web page and "Mars mikes" in April 2005's
Ask Astro.
Visit
Don Gurnett's Space Audio page for plasma sounds collected by University of Iowa instruments on various spacecraft, including the Voyager, Cassini, and Polar missions.
For an introduction to helioseismology, see the
Solar Physics page at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, the
Stanford Solar Center's Helioseismology Tours site, and the
National Solar Observatory's GONG site.
See
The Sounds of Pulsars to hear the brightest pulsars in the sky recorded using some of the world's largest radio telescopes.
For more on the Perseus Galaxy Cluster's "B-flat black hole," see
BLACK HOLE SOUND WAVES to hear the brightest pulsars in the sky recorded using some of the world's largest radio telescopes.
Mark Whittle's home page at the University of Virginia
BLACK HOLE SOUND WAVES has more on his re-created sound of the Big Bang.
Kenneth Sylvan Guthrie's
Complete Pythagoras (Platonist Press, 1920), a collection of surviving works from the Pythagorean school, is available online at
www.completepythagoras.net. See
www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Pythagoras.html for more biographical details of the man himself.
You'll find an excellent multimedia overview on solar sounds at
www.noao.edu/education/ighelio/solar_music.html.