August 2008 Extra

In space nobody can hear you scream but that doesn't mean that it is totally quiet. In this show, Tim O'Brien helps our ears to explore the sounds of the cosmos [08:12-46:53] and Elaine Barrett tells us about her very special tour of NASA's Space Centre in Houston [48:03-1:10:13].

Apollo Era Control Centre (c) Elaine Barrett

Space Shuttle cockpit (c) Elaine Barrett

International Space Station Control Centre (c) Elaine Barrett

The big neutral buoyancy tank for astronaut training (c) Elaine Barrett

Astronaut mooning (c) Elaine Barrett

Elaine standing next to the vacuum chamber (c) Elaine Barrett

Show Links

• Registax
• Running Registax under Linux
• GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP)
• Our video trailer
• Mark Shaw's image of the partial solar eclipse from Manchester

The Sounds of Space

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• Wikipedia: Cassiopeia A
• Cassiopeia A image from the VLA
• Professor Don Burnett's Sounds of Space
• Wikipedia: Whistlers
• Jodrell Bank Meteor Detector
• Jovian Chorus
• Nature: Jovian S-burst observations at 32 MHz, Michael D. Desch, Richard S. Flagg and Jorge May
• ESA Huygens: sounds from Titan
• Stanford University: Solar Sounds
• Berkeley: Solar Wind Sonification
• The Rossi X-Ray Timing Explorer Project
• Wikipedia: Cygnus X-1
• Jodrell Bank: Sounds of Pulsars
• APoD: Vela Pulsar
• APoD: The Crab Nebula Pulsar Shrugs
• SEDS: NGC 104 - globular cluster 47 Tucanae
• Double pulsar system
• Double pulsar animations by Ren?Breton (McGill University)
• Mark Whittle's (University of Virginia) Sounds From The Newborn Universe

Tour of Space Centre Houston

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• Level 9 Tour

Show Credits