Music of the spheres

Bad Astronomy
By Phil Plait
Jul 24, 2011 4:00 PMNov 20, 2019 3:26 AM

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Alex Parker is an astronomy PhD student at the University of Victoria, and had a neat idea: create music based on 241 supernovae found in a three-year-long survey of the sky. The data were from the Canada-France-Hawaii-Telescope, and he made a video of the effort:

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