Kepler 11: A Six-Planet Sonata

Sonification of the transits of the remarkable Kepler 11 planetary system. - Alex Harrison Parker, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. Audio available for download: ~alexhp/new/figures/ Kepler 11 has a compact system of six planets, detected by the Kepler observatory through their transits of their host star: Here, I’ve taken each transit seen by the observatory and assigned a pitch and volume to it. The pitch (n