Symphonies of the Planets
There is no sound in the vacuum of space because sound needs a medium to travel through, but celestial objects can still make a “noise” with electromagnetic waves. On its journey to the edge of the solar system, the Voyager 1 Spacecraft recorded vibrations created by interactions between the charged particles of the solar wind and the magnetospheres of various planets and moons. These haunting soundscapes were sent home to Earth, and since the vibrations were between 20 hz to 20 khz—within the range of human hearing—we could convert them into sound.
The results are both stunningly familiar and utterly alien, and NASA even released an album of them. Realise that you’re not listening to human-made sounds, but instead to the solar weather of planets and moons.
YES GOOD
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Celestial Quilt from Urban Threads.
This makes me want to learn to quilt.
Yeah. I want this. A lot.
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Someone appears to have trimmed off the watermark in the original. Cute.
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Awakening Stars - Herb Ernst
From Dreamflight by Herb Ernst. I used to have a cassette tape (ya rly) of that album.
Celestials do, in fact, reproduce.
However, it’s not nearly as simple as human sex, and is a far more profound experience.
To reproduce, two or more (usually more) celestials combine their energy patterns and copy them, and that is their “child”.
Just like humans, celestials engage in “sex” for pleasure as well as reproduction. It is an amazing profound experience. The participants become, for a short time, one mind, and share each others’ thoughts and memories.
It’s amazing and really leads to a new level of understanding.
This matches up with what I remember as well, particularly the mechanic of “combining”, or “blending”, as I would probably have phrased it.
(I think this is also the kind of thing we did as sidhe/fae, in less-physical mode at least. Kinda conflicting and confusing thoughts/memories there.)
a realm under hill: Are there any SANE starkin out there?
Edit: by sane, I mean non-trolls.
“Celestial” is one term I can use for myself, if that’s what you mean. By celestial I mean referring to space and stars, not angelic (which is another type which sometimes also uses the word “celestial”). I wouldn’t have called it…
I would really like to learn more about that and you! Sounds fascinating. My mom told me I’m a Star Child (I don’t know if I am or not), but I identify as a Grey Wolf/Dark Elf (Norse Mythos). And I’ve always loved the stars and space. :3
I tend to talk about faery stuff more though. I feel it’s my primary thing, and there’s more of that kind of discussion going around on tumblr to begin with. “Star child” I don’ think is really the same thing, not if you mean something either like “indigo/crystal, lightworker” or like “starseed” (which can have some crossover).
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Edit: by sane, I mean non-trolls.
“Celestial” is one term I can use for myself, if that’s what you mean. By celestial I mean referring to space and stars, not angelic (which is another type which sometimes also uses the word “celestial”). I wouldn’t have called it “star-kin”, just not my usual vocabulary I guess, but yeah, the idea is pretty much being the spirits (or fragments of the spirits) of stars, clusters, nebulae, and other such celestial bodies, including constellations, even though logically speaking those are only arranged the way we know them from Earth’s vantage point, and constellations on other planets must necessarily be quite different. It gets pretty confusing (at least for this tiny ape-descended hominid brain) when you go up to galactic scale or beyond… O.o
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This may not be quite what you had in mind as “music”, but a friend of mine who is - well, I suppose a “celestial” may be the most accurate description - swears by these. Not the mission control recordings on the right hand side, but the actual sounds of space that you can listen to by selecting the spheres on the left. I kind of like the Vela Pulsar myself. ~Wrath~
“Spherics, tweeks & whistlers” sounds to me like a recording I have of the aurora borealis - not exactly space, but cool nonetheless. And it kind of reminds me of … oh I dunno what to call it… “star chatter” or “speech of the stars”, twinkles and zaps and stuff that the consciousness of the stars send back and forth. I know “twinkling” is an artifact of passing through an atmosphere - but a kind of pulsing, rhythmic, shining… gaaah English you fail me.
She says nothing at all, but simply stares upward into the dark sky and watches, with sad eyes, the slow dance of the infinite stars.
Neil Gaiman, Stardust (via weaverofstars)(Source: reckless-stupidity, via weaverofstars)
Yosemite Valley at First Light by snooked123 on Flickr.
omg how many times can I click “favorite”
