{"135681":{"#nid":"135681","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Scientists use (real) stars to make reggae music","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EScientists have created a melody that\u0027s truly out of this world, turning numerical data from two stars in our galaxy into music for a reggae-rock band. The star observations were made by NASA\u0027s planet-hunting Kepler space telescope. Researchers at \u003Cstrong\u003EGeorgia Tech\u2019s Sonification Lab\u003C\/strong\u003E converted the data into sound, at the request of the band Echo Movement, which wanted to infuse one of its songs with a heavenly melody. \u0022The Sonification Lab receives a lot of requests to convert scientific data into sound, but this one was truly unique,\u0022 \u003Cstrong\u003EBruce Walker, a professor in Georgia Tech\u0027s school of psychology\u003C\/strong\u003E, said in a statement. \u0022It\u2019s not often that we have a chance to help an actual star compose music.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27659","created_gmt":"2012-06-15 11:22:07","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:12:22","author":"Christopher Ernst","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2012-06-13T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2012-06-13T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/on.msnbc.com\/LGuWOk","title":"Source: MSNBC"}],"groups":[{"id":"1299","name":"GVU Center"}],"categories":[{"id":"148","name":"Music and Music Technology"}],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}