StarTalk Radio · 2025-11-25 · 64 min · 10,922 words

Sounds of the Cosmos with Kim Arcand

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I'm completely charmed that you can take a picture and listen to it. You can take a sound and look at it. This is this is mixing up our senses for the greater good of science. Oh, I'm sorry, I couldn't hear you. I was listening to the universe.

Coming up, Kim Arkhand, data sonification expert for the Chandra X-ray telescope, returns to Star Talk. Welcome to Star Talk, your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide. Star Talk begins right now. This is Star Talk. Neil deGrasse Tyson, your personal astrophysicist, and we're going to do cosmic queries today.

Chuck. What's up, Neil? When we do cosmic queries, you come supplied. With the queries. With the actual queries.

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