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The universe at midnight

An ancient Tibetan piece of artwork shows the twelve tracks on which the sun revolves around Mount Meru. It's part of an exhibition on understanding the cosmos at Zurich's Rietberg Museum. Rietberg Museum Zurich

Exploring the universe s secrets and sounds

We take a tour of the cosmos with the University of Zurich's Ben Moore, an astrophysics professor and musician who uncovers the history of the universe – to his own soundtrack.

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Isobel Leybold-Johnson, swissinfo.ch


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