Researchers at Georgia Tech’s Sonification Lab in the United  States have converted data collected by NASA’s planet-hunting Kepler space  telescope into sound, and the result is reggae.

At the resquest of the band Echo Movement, the scientists have  turned numerical data from two stars in our galaxy into a melody that some have  described as being out of this world.

Internet reports indicate that Sonification Lab researchers first  looked at observations of a binary star known as Kepler 4665989, which dimmed  and brightened each time its companion star crossed its path.

These reports quote a researcher as explaining: “Those numerical  values were loaded into our Sonification Sandbox software to create sequences of  sonified musical pitches. The process put us on the right track.”

The scientists then removed some of the ambient sound from the  signal and sent the result on to the band. In addition, the team from Georgia  Tech reportedly used data from a different binary star, known as Kepler  10291683, to add a trembling effect.