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Music of Celestial Spheres — part 6 — story of a fallen star

by Andrey Klimkovsky

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From deep space 03:03
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Conversation with the Pleiades 04:16
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In the moonshine 02:24
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Flying over the Sun 04:48
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In the power of Jupiter 05:03
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Saturn's ring 06:01
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Beyond the Pluto's Orbit 12:48
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Become a star! 07:08
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Above the Earth with a comet 03:00
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Conversation with the Pleiades 03:54
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The musical cycle «Music of Celestial Spheres» by composer Andrey Klimkovsky was started in 1997, then, quite unexpectedly for himself, the musician wrote the album «From dusk till dawn», which became the first chapter in a long and captivating musical narration. In the next two years, Andrey Klimkovsky released 4 more other albums continuing the themes of the cycle, but with the beginning of the third millennium, there was a ten-year break in the work on new themes of the cycle. The composer did not close the project. Simply, there were other musical experiments. Andrey Klimkovsky's albums were published annually, but not quite in this style. And in 2011, largely due to the opening of the Moscow Planetarium and the general rise of interest among listeners to just such music — "the music of starry nights among the domes of observatories" — the musician had the desire and inspiration to continue the «Music of Celestial Spheres» cycle. But the fateful impulse to start work was the proposal to write a soundtrack for an educational program in the planetarium dedicated to the smallest inhabitants of the Solar system — meteoroids, which often cause a very beautiful atmospheric phenomenon — a "shooting star" or, as astronomers say — a meteor.


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Once there were more of them — the moon dotted with craters keeps evidence of past meteorite activity — all the space between the orbits of the major planets of the Solar System was filled with all sorts of stones, clumps the size of a rock, and maybe a mountain range. The formation of planets ended about 4.5 billion years ago, but there is a lot of unclaimed material left — a planet cannot be built from it, but it cannot be counted. Over the long billions of years, the planets have collected most of this meteoric matter — some objects fell to the surface of the planets, forming hundreds of thousands of craters on the Moon, Venus, Mars and Mercury. At one time, the Earth also got it, but it is very difficult to find traces of prehistoric meteorite bombardment on our planet. But now interplanetary space is much freer, and most often on the path of our planet in orbit around the Sun there are tiny particles — the size of a pea. Flying into the atmosphere at cosmic speed, they quickly heat up and burn, leaving a luminous trail in the sky. Astronomers call a "meteor" the glow in the high atmosphere produced by a little space visitor. But this beautiful phenomenon can cause an illusion — as if a star had fallen from the crystal firmament, unable to stay high. In fact, stars do not fall from the sky, but larger particles sometimes reach the earth's surface. And then scientists talk about a meteorite falling. Meteorites fall much less frequently than “flyby of meteors” across the dark night sky, because during the epoch of activity of certain meteor showers, several dozen “shooting stars” can be counted per hour of observation.

Where do these small particles come from to burn up, disappear, merge with the substance of the Earth, but then shine for a few moments like eternal and distant stars? Their fates are different. It is quite possible that some of these particles were captured by our Sun — its gravity — during a long interstellar flight across the Galaxy. Stars often pass through gas and dust nebulae — an example of this is the Pleiades star cluster in the constellation Taurus. And then the substance of this nebula — dust and microparticles — can become our new neighbors in the solar system.

Of course, most meteor particles are generated by the destruction of comet nuclei. Comets approaching the Sun melt away and countless swarms of meteor particles are released from their icy depths. They stretch along the cometary orbit, and when the Earth passes near the orbit of the old destroyed comet, we have meteor showers — when you can count tens of thousands of meteors per night.

But there are also quite independent meteoroids that travel alone. Their paths are very confusing — they are often captured by massive planets and can rotate for millions of years in the company of the same unwary small stones — these are the rings of Saturn and other gas giants. Sometimes they manage to leave the environment of the "ringed" planets and then they again have a chance to become a star and fulfill someone's desire.

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released December 3, 2011

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Andrey Klimkovsky Moscow, Russia

Andrey Klimkovsky is one of leading russian composers working in the electronic musical space. Images creating by him - "Music of Celestial Spheres", "Starry Sky", "ALEALA" и "DreamOcean" - stayed the classics of the genre, received popularity as in Russia, and abroad. ... more

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