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"Web Watch," Physics Today

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In the past, astronomy was confined to one spectral band, the visual. Now, however, astronomers exploit the entire electromagnectic spectrum. To demonstrate the power of full-spectrum observing, Columbia University's David Helfand makes an aural analogy. His website, Seeing the Whole Symphony , offers audio files that sample the last movement of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony one octave at a time.