IT has always been said that the sky is the limit for reggae music. A group of scientists, however, has taken this saying literally.

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.