Sounds of Silent Space

We see it all the time in space movies during battle scenes: lasers, ships exploding. Since space is empty, there's nothing for sound to travel through, so even if these things actually happen, they'll be silent. Imagine those scenes without sound.

But space isn't actually silent. Just as we know it. With plasma vibrations, electromagnetic vibrations, and radioactive vibrations, space has its own music.

NASA's Voyager rover, launched in 1977, also had a spectrometer instrument capable of recording radio waves. With this instrument, Voyager sent us every sound it recorded. Below are links where you can listen to these sounds. It might be a little scary :)

Radio waves recorded by Voyager from Jupiter in 2011 audio recording.

Voyager's recordings from Earth with Ultracold Liquid Helium audio recording.

Here is the Galileo spacecraft recording radio waves from Jupiter's moon Ganymede. audio recording.

Voyager's first recorded plasma pulses in interstellar space audio recording.

Voyager's Saturn moon EnceladusIon vibrations recorded from the atmosphere of audio recording.

The ESA/NASA Soho spacecraft recorded low-wave vibrations from the sun audio recording.

The aurora we know on Earth, the electromagnetic field of high energy electrons audio recording.

The Cassini spacecraft recorded collisions in Saturn's rings audio recording.

The Leonids meteor shower of 2000 audio recording. When a meteor enters the atmosphere, it creates short-lived ionized particles.