Andrew Williams, from Leicester's Space Research Centre, used data collected by satellites and spacecraft to generate the sound you would hear if you tuned a radio in to outer space.
The most compelling recording is the "Dawn Chorus" of electrons hitting our upper atmosphere. They sound like starlings tweeting above a bubbling brook, interrupted by the Sun's pulses, the 'Daily Express' reported.
The sound was recorded by the Cluster II satellite on the 9th of July 2001 using a Long Wave Radio receiver.
Another recording is of the rhythmic pulses of the Sun, but Williams had to overcome many difficulties for this one.
The sounds picked up by the Soho spacecraft are so deep that Williams had to magnify their pitch by 40,000 times.
Because the sound occurs once every five minutes he accelerated the recording 42,000 times to provide 40 days of pulses in a few seconds.
"Much of the data comes from Satellites (in particular Cluster II) and it seemed natural to find the exact location of this when the data was collected," Williams said.
The recordings are now on display at Leicester University.
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