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Once there was a star, just like everything in life,

she reached the end of her regular start days when her heart,

the core of her life, exhausted its fuel.

But that was no end.

She transformed into a supernova and in the process,

releasing a tremendous amount of energy.

Okay, she said,

who and what am I listening to?

This is Wanda Diazmer said.

She's a blind astronomer in a pioneer in astronomical sonification.

This is a TED Talk she gave about the massive explosions that stars release when they die.

She's done a lot of work capturing these gamma rapers using sound rather than sight.

Oh, so she's like the OG of astronomical sonification.

Like all of this, this entire series we're doing stems from her and her work.

Yeah, exactly.

You're listening to Scientific American Science Quickly.

I'm Jason Trickford and I'm Timmy Broderick.

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