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Apr 2023
51m 39s

Cosmic Queries – The Sound of Space with...

NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON
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What does space sound like? Neil deGrasse Tyson and Matt Kirshen explore space sonification projects and Chandra x-ray data with astronomy visualization expert Kimberly Arcand. Hear what the supermassive black hole at the center of The Milky Way sounds like… 
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