![]() “We’re hoping that the wisdom of the crowd, combined with our highly tuned human sense of hearing, will help us pick out the features of these waves,” said Martin Archer, a space physicist with Imperial College London and one of the scientists behind the project-Heliophysics Audified: Resonances in Plasmas ( HARP).īy classifying the different types of vibrations, the researchers hope to get a better picture of how they influence Earth’s magnetic field. This haunting melody is too low in pitch for us to hear, but researchers have turned these sounds into something audible and are now asking the public to help listen to the din of space. “We’re hoping that the wisdom of the crowd, combined with our highly tuned human sense of hearing, will help us pick out the features of these waves.” Gusty and energetic solar winds can send ultralow-frequency waves quivering along the magnetic field lines that surround our planet-just like a harp string when plucked. ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s buzzing with charged particles expelled from the Sun and lofted along by solar winds. ![]()
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