Music of the Spheres -- and a (Pedestrian) Moral about Factual Inference

Astronomers now use the sounds -- or, in any event, I presume, the sounds extracted from electromagnetic radiation (the sound waves that humans hear with their ears do not travel well through space) -- emanating from stars to decipher the innards of stars. See this BBC story.

This is a nifty example of just how complicated -- and surprising -- "factual inference" can be.

N.B. Human ingenuity seems to know no limits.

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