Johann Strauss' The Blue Danube to be broadcast into deep space

A portion of classical euphony is to beryllium played into abstraction to observe the 200th day of the commencement of its composer and the 50th twelvemonth of the European Space Agency (ESA).

The Blue Danube, by Johann Strauss, volition beryllium beamed into the cosmos arsenic it's performed by the Vienna Symphony Orchestra connected 31 May, and livestreamed with escaped nationalist screenings successful Vienna, Madrid, and New York.

To debar immoderate method issues, a pre-recorded mentation from the orchestra's rehearsal connected the time earlier volition beryllium played out, portion a unrecorded show provides the accompaniment.

The music, which famously featured successful Stanley Kubrick's 1968 movie, 2001: A Space Odyssey, volition walk the satellite successful conscionable 1.5 seconds.

Starting from the ESA's large antenna crockery successful Spain, portion of the agency's deep-space network, it volition walk Mars successful 4.5 minutes, Jupiter successful 37 minutes and spell past Neptune successful 4 hours.

If each goes to plan, NASA's Voyager 1, the world's astir distant spacecraft, volition beryllium reached wrong 23 hours, erstwhile the signals volition beryllium much than 15 cardinal miles successful interstellar space.

Tourism officials successful Vienna, wherever Strauss was calved successful October 1825, said broadcasting "the astir celebrated of each waltzes" into abstraction corrects the "cosmic mistake" of his euphony being near retired of erstwhile interstellar broadcasts.

Strauss was overlooked astir 50 years ago, erstwhile the Voyager Golden Records were played retired connected gold-plated copper phonograph records installed successful NASA's Voyagers 1 and 2.

The records incorporate sounds and images of Earth arsenic good arsenic 90 minutes of music. The precocious astronomer Carl Sagan led the committee that chose works by Bach, Beethoven, Mozart and Stravinsky, on with modern and Indigenous selections.

Strauss was among those omitted from the 1977 broadcasts.

NASA celebrated its 50th day successful 2008 by transmitting The Beatles' Across The Universe straight into heavy space, and past twelvemonth the bureau beamed up Missy Elliott's The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly) towards Venus.