April Meeting

Stellar Sounds for Human Ears

“Cosmic harmony”, “the music of the spheres”, it’s a concept that has resonated with human civilizations on Earth since ancient times.

Now we know that this “cosmic harmony” bears some truth, also in a scientific way of looking at our universe. Many of the stars that we observe in our night sky ring with sound, like giant musical instruments. The study of this stellar music is called asteroseismology, and it allows us to probe the depths of our universe in much more detail than ever previously thought possible.

I will present my field of research and its applications, and illustrate it with some soundbites of actual stars.