The Eerie Music of Interstellar Space

While it's true that there's no air to carry sound in space, starship explosions would be strangely silent and no one can hear you scream, this latest

Science @ NASA

video reminds us that "space

can

make music, if you know how to listen."

And the "how" in this case is with the Plasma Wave Science Experiment aboard the Voyager 1 spacecraft, which is now playing the sounds of interstellar space -- with a little help from University of Iowa physics professor and experiment principal investigator Don Gurnett. Watch the video above for a front-row seat (and read more about Voyager's historic crossing of the heliosphere

here

.)