135861 news 1340015903 1475896342 <![CDATA[The New Stars of Reggae Are Nothing like the Old Ones]]> The new stars of the reggae scene are stars. Earthly music just ain't enough for reggae / rock band Echo Movement. In search of extraterrestrial inspiration, they hooked up with researchers at Georgia Tech's Sonification Lab, which specializes in turning ugly numbers into beautiful music. Using data from NASA's Kepler telescope and its search for Earth II, SonLab generated "sequences of sonified musical pitches" from fluctuations in a star's brightness (meet Kepler 4665989).

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