Sounds of the Cosmos with Kim Arcand

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🗓️ 25 November 2025

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Can you listen to a picture of the universe? Neil deGrasse Tyson and Chuck Nice welcome back Chandra X-ray Observatory data-sonification expert Kim Arcand of the to explore how translating cosmic data into sound lets us sense the universe in entirely new ways.

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0:00.0	I'm completely charmed that you can take a picture and listen to it.
0:04.2	You can take a sound and look at it.
0:06.4	This is mixing up our senses for the greater good of science.
0:10.8	Oh, I'm sorry, I couldn't hear you.
0:11.8	I was listening to the universe.
0:14.4	Coming up, Kim Arcand, data sonification expert for the Chandra X-ray telescope.
0:21.6	Returns to StarTalk.
0:24.6	Welcome to StarTalk.
0:28.6	Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:33.6	StarTalk begins right now. This is StarTalk begins right now.
0:41.0	This is StarTalk.
0:44.3	Neil deGrasse Tyson, you're a personal astrophysicist,
0:47.1	and we're going to do cosmic queries today.
0:47.9	Chuck.
0:49.5	What's up, Neil?
0:53.2	When we do cosmic queries, you come supplied with the queries.
1:11.5	With the actual queries. With one of our regular, is she a regular yet? She is a regular at this point. She's been on four times, something like that. Easily, yeah. Yeah, the one and only, Kim Arcand. Kim, welcome back to StarTalk. Thank you. I feel like I need a jacket or something, like they do at Saturday Night Live, you know? She puts the pressure on us now.
1:12.7	Five-timer.
1:14.8	Yeah, we'll have to get her a master's jacket.
1:17.6	Yellow or a gold jacket. All right.
1:17.9	She just, all right, maybe we got to do something like about that.
1:20.8	Okay.
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