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. Triggered by solar winds and lightning, these waves can tell scientists about space. Scientists at the British Antarctic Survey use them to study space weather and its links to Earth’s climate.