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Space sounds: sonification vs hearing in vacuum

How NASA and researchers turn EM data into audio — and why space is silent to human ears.

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Vacuum doesn’t carry air sound. “Sounds of space” are usually sonified electromagnetic or plasma data shifted into hearing range — real data, transformed for perception.

✦ Mystic / Mythos

Cosmic choir metaphors return: spheres singing again through software. Wonder is appropriate; mislabeling is not.

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