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This updated, annotated guide (part of a series devoted to resources for enjoying or teaching astronomy) features over 250 pieces of music inspired by serious astronomy, including both classical and popular music examples.  YouTube links are given for the vast majority, so you (or your students) can listen to them without expense. 

Among the pieces included is:

1)     a Hubble Space Telescope cantata,

2)     eight rock songs about black holes with reasonable science,

3)     a supernova piano sonata,

4)     a musical exploration of the Messier catalog of nebulae, clusters, and galaxies,

5)     a moving song about Stephen Hawking,

6)     Moon songs by the Grateful Dead, George Harrison, and the Police,

7)     piano pieces “for children with small hands” named after the constellations,

8)     operas about Galileo, Kepler, and Einstein,

and many more. 

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