THE VOICE OF STARS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 58, 9 March 1935, Page 6 (Supplement)

THE VOICE OF STARS.

When we read of Shakespeare saying

"There's not the smallest orb which thou heholdest, But in his motion like an angel sings."

we dismissed the "sing" as pure poetical fancy. But it is now possible to hear a star do its bit of singing in the music of the spheres. . It has long been an axiom of science that there is no movement without sound, however remote that sound may be from our restricted range of sound vibrations. Two doctors of science in Czecho-Slovakia focused on the heavenly bodies their optical telescope, into which had been inserted the photo-cell. The electric current, transformed into sound waves, was amplified and made into a record. Thus we have available the special tones of the moon, whose light takes one and a third seconds to reach us, and the bri'.'ht star Vega, whose beams left her 2o■ years previously, or. sny, Lambda, wlicVe tones stiirtoil their long journey through spneo over KID years ago. when Heury AMI I. was singing his love ditties.