That would be the music of the spheres. In the old days it was thought that the movements of the heavenly spheres (sun, moon, stars etc.) generated a form of music through their harmonic and proportional movements. This was not thought to be a music that you could hear, but more of a mathematical concept (and for Aristotle even religious to the extent that the motion was sustained by the Prime Mover). Wikipedia has an intertesting article on this topic here. I bring it up at all because two students of mine came across this recent news. It turns out that Saturn does produce its own "music", and thanks to modern science we can now hear it. It is a phenomenal and almost haunting series of sounds. Give it a listen if you have a chance.
Thanks to Alyssa Gullotto and Shawn Hoose for passing the link along.
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