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Astronomers studying six planets orbiting a star 100 light years away have just found that they orbit their star with an almost rhythmic beat, in perfect synchrony.
Each pair of planets completes their orbits in times that are the ratios of whole numbers.
This type of gravitational alignment is called orbital resonance, and it’s like a harmony between distant planets.
Astronomers at the European Southern Observatory created what they call “music of the spheres” for the TOI 178 system by associating a sound on a pentatonic scale to each of the five planets.
Astronomers have also created a sonification for the HD 110067 system.
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