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How To Hear Radio Signals From Jupiter:

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Jupiter is a source of powerful bursts of natural radio waves that can produce exotic sounds when picked up on Earth using simple antennas and shortwave receivers. Even though human ears can"t hear the radio waves directly, they make an exciting listening experience when converted to audio signals by a receiver. It"s not E.T. phoning home. The shortwave radio signals from Jupiter aren"t a sign of extraterrestrial intelligence. The emissions are generated naturally by plasma instabilities in Jupiter"s magnetosphere. Pulsing power beam. Most space physicists say that ionized gas in the upper atmosphere above Jupiter"s magnetic poles sometimes behaves like a powerful radio laser or maser. The radiation can be so intense that Jupiter frequently outshines the Sun as a source of radio energy at ham radio wavelengths.
 

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