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Old 22-08-2015, 11:27 AM
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I think he might be looking for oscillating patterns, like mentioned here. I can't remember the correct name for it, but stars oscillate in their own patterns and you can turn this pattern into a "note" They have a naturally very long wavelength, and for us to "hear" them they have to artificially amplified. There was an astronomer who did a tour of Australia talking about this some years ago, called "The music of the stars" or something like that. It was a while ago, so I'm really scraping in the corners of my memory on this, hope it makes sense. If someone can remember the name better a search might turn up better results.

Edit: Found it! Stellar seismology! Here is a Youtube vid on it. Another link here. The term to use in Wikipedia is Asteroseismology. I can't see any specific mention of Antares, you'll have to dig for this yourself.

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