Praise ye him, sun and moon: praise him, all ye stars of light. – Psalm 148:3, KJV

According to Nature.com:

Most astronomers gaze at the heavens and see stars. William Chaplin hears an orchestra — a celestial symphony in which the smallest stars are flutes, the medium-sized ones are trombones and the giants are reverberating tubas.

The sounds are internal vibrations that reveal themselves as a subtle, rhythmic brightening and dimming of a star, explains Chaplin, an astrophysicist at the University of Birmingham, UK, and a specialist in asteroseismology. These waves provide information that astronomers can’t get in any other way: triggered by the turbulent rise and fall of hot gases on the star’s surface, the vibrations penetrate deep into the stellar interior and become resonating tones that reveal the star’s size, composition and mass (see ‘Celestial music’). So by watching for the characteristic fluctuations in brightness, says Chaplin, “we can literally build up a picture of what the inside of a star looks like”.

Central to the quote above is this: each star in the universe emits its own sound, and listened to in groups, the combined sounds are reminiscent of music.

Louie Giglio demonstrates this phenomena of celestial music in the video below. In fifteen minutes, he shows compellingly how God, through His creation, creates music that is not only pleasing to Himself, but that is also inspiring to His children. Unable to adequately describe in words the impact of Mr. Giglio’s demonstration, I highly recommend you take a few minutes to hear for yourself the reality of God’s celestial symphony. 

God’s creation not only praises Him in sound; it praises Him visually as well.

The Whirlpool Galaxy was discovered on October 13, 1773 by Charles Messier while hunting for objects that could confuse comet hunters.

A black hole, surrounded by a ring of dust, is thought to exist at the heart of the spiral. Two dust rings surround the galaxy’s central black hole, and when viewed from the appropriate distance, the center of the galaxy forms the shape of a cross.

Taking the sights and sounds of God’s Creation together, it is easy to grasp that Psalm 148:3 was not meant to be metaphorical in nature. It was written as a reflection of a tremendous truth: Creation praises the God that formed it, and it does so nonstop.

We, as part of God’s Creation, have a part in the symphony. Let’s be sure to hold up our part of the production.