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Space Jam: Astronaut Sings Duet From the Space Station

February 8, 2013

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield participated in an annual event for Canadian music students from a unique location: a long-distance perch in the Cupola of the International Space Station. Before launching to the ISS in December, Hadfield wrote a song with Ed [...]

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Sounds of the Space Station

January 16, 2013

CSA astronaut Chris Hadfield strums some chords in the cupola (NASA) You’ve probably seen plenty of photos of astronauts and cosmonauts working aboard the International Space Station, and maybe even some videos of ISS briefings and interviews and tours throughout the different modules (and perhaps even an astronaut-produced song or two.) But have you ever [...]

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The Face of Creation

January 3, 2013

The latest autotuned installment in John D. Boswell’s Symphony of Science series waxes melodic about the particle-smashing science being done with the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, in particular its search for the Higgs boson, a.k.a. the… ok, ok, I won’t say it… “We can recreate the conditions that were present just after the beginning [...]

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Brazilian Band Soars to New Heights with a NASA-Inspired Video

July 21, 2012

Popular Brazilian rock band Fresno recently released a new video for their new song, “Infinito”, and it really rises above the rest — literally! It’s a story of four guys who take their childhood dream of launching a package up into space and, after years apart, come back together to make it a reality. Along the [...]

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The Workings of our Solar System Creates Beautiful Musical Palindrome

January 17, 2012

If you like math, music and space (separately or in any combination) you’re gonna love this. Musician Daniel Starr-Tambor has created a song by assigning each planet a note and speeding up the orbital periods of the planets where 2 seconds represents one Earth year, with a note playing for each orbit. But this isn’t [...]

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