(Larger version here.)

This is the Japanese lunar probe Kayuga (Selene) crashing into the Moon.

More specifically, this is a 3D rendering of data sent by the probe as it ended its mission – just as it was programmed to do. Silently. Inexorably. Beautifully. There’s a Japanese word, aware (ah-wah-ray), that describes the beauty of sadness and transience. [...]

SONG: “This is the Sound” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)

ARTIST: grant.

SOURCE: “Acoustic Black Hole Created in Bose-Einstein Condensate”, Technology Review, 10 June 2009, as used in the post “A SONIC BLACK HOLE!”

ABSTRACT:
So, first off, the chorus to this was written intentionally – this song is not the sound of a [...]