Legend would have it that while listening to the noise caused by a blacksmith’s hammer striking iron atop an anvil, Pythagoras noticed a relation between the weight of the hammer and the pitch of the sound produced. His starting point is a rational study of reality. In his investigation there is no epiphany from the Muses, indeed his research follows the scientific method. The relationship that humankind probed between music and the sciences, in particular with astronomy, is very ancient and can be originally found in Pythagoras (c. The immensity of the sky and the sparkling stars have inspired mankind from time immemorial and many scientists were music lovers or even musicians themselves: Galileo, Herschel, Einstein… The aim of this article is to highlight the peculiar and intriguing connection between music and astronomy. Both Voyager 1 and 2 carry with them a phonograph record, the Voyager Golden Record, containing images as well as musical examples designated for any extraterrestrial life form. Officially designed to study the planetary systems of Jupiter and Saturn, the two probes still gather a large amount of data and on August, 25th 2012, Voyager 1 entered the unexplored region of space known as interstellar space. In 1977, NASA launched two spacecrafts: Voyager 1 and 2.
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