Last week I was listening to the Inception soundtrack and flipping through the Wired Science Space Photo of the Day gallery, a collection of the best astronomical images on the web, hand-selected by the Wired Science staff. It was quite possibly the most dramatic thing my brain has ever comprehended, even more so than weddings and the Olympics and such. So I sent out the following tweet:
And it got a lot of response. So I sent out another tweet, which @wired retweeted, asking Wired readers to pick the most dramatic/epic music they could find on Spotify, so we might build a playlist worthy of being the soundtrack to nebulas, dying stars, and swirling galaxies.
This is that playlist. All six hours of it: The Wired Science Space Photo of the Day Spotify Playlist
It’s by no means comprehensive. If you keep sending in your picks, we’ll keep expanding the playlist. Ping me at @mrMattSimon or drop a comment below.
At the top of this post is a silent video slideshow we’ve put together to pair with the soundtrack if you want to sit back and give your clicker finger a rest, or feel free to click through your own selection of images. Please note that if you have a slow connection the video quality may kick down automatically.
And we must insist you go full-screen on this one. So get some good headphones, find some dramatic tunes, and experience the glory of the universe.
Matt is the host of Wired's Footnotes show and editor of the This Day in Tech blog, where he writes about all manner of milestones while respectfully declining requests from friends and family to write about their birthdays.
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