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Hubble Telescope audio recording


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Hi, I would like to know if the Hubble Telescope records audio sounds also?, besides the images

 

It doesn't record audio signals, it's a telescope.

 

In principle, given a good enough detector we could measure C_s which would be dependant on the medium of the ISM (even though at the best of times, it's incredibly tenuous).

 

There's a whole bunch of astrophysical phenomena where our understanding depends on how sound waves propagate in certain environments e.g accretion disks. The ISM or IGM aren't really good testbeds for studying audio signals...they're (next to a vacuum) the worst in the universe. ;)

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.....they're (next to a vacuum) the worst in the universe. ;)

A thought; At human-scales, space is a pretty good vacuum but what about at scales of millions or billions of light-years? The chances of inter-molecuar collision will adjust to scale won't they and sound waves will result? You do need some seriously big phenomena, like supernovae, to get compression waves going though at that scale and the frequencies would be very low. What do you think?

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