About AstroCappella
Our Mission: Spreading science through a cappella and a cappella through science across a wide swath of the known Universe.
AstroCappella is a marriage of astronomy and music, developed by astronomers and educators and professionally recorded by the rocking a cappella group The Chromatics.Read more...
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Listen to the songs
Many of the songs are available here on this website. Listen to them and read the
lyrics.
Most songs are available on iTunes.
Some are only available on the physical CDs, AstroCappella
2.0 and Shoulders of Giants.
Do the activities and use the lesson plans
Do the activities associated with the songs. All of the activities and lessons are available here. Puzzles are only available via the CD/CD-ROM.
Discover the science topics
Read about the science that informs our music. These short backgrounders were written by NASA scientists.
Get the AstroCappella 2.0 CD
A dozen original songs on topics from our solar system to the most energetic events at the
far reaches of the universe. Sky & Telescope called it "An astronomy class set to music" and Astronomy Today said "Lively, entertaining, and
educational." This CD is also a CD-ROM that contains all the lyrics, activities, lesson plans and background material.
Available from iTunes
Featured Multimedia
JWST Funk video
Celebrating the James Webb Space Telescope, which launched Dec 25, 2021.
Noctilucent Cloud video
NASA produced this beautiful video about noctilucent clouds, set to our original song about these enigmatic clouds at the edge of our atmosphere.
Mars video
Our song, "Come and Visit Mars" is a travelogue: find out what you need to visit and what it might be like! Animated by MICA instructor Matthew Smith, just for us.
Dance of the Planets video
A story of coming of age in the galaxy. How we went from knowing only about the planets in our solar system, to realizing there are more planets than stars in our galaxy.
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