Otherworldly music albums feature space weather data

Radio waves crucial to space weather research inspire an unlikely trio to release music

Illustration of a turntable where the spinning record morphs into a cosmic disk with planets and swirling space above.

The Sounds of Space team sonifies the galaxy, turning scientific data into music albums.

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In the frozen vastness of Antarctica, a giant, spider­like antenna eavesdrops on radio waves pulsing around Earth via our planet’s magnetic field.