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Detailed explanation-1: -The noises were reportedly heard in May 1969 by the Apollo 10 astronauts as they circled the moon, months before the first astronauts set foot on the lunar surface on July 21 that same year.

Detailed explanation-2: -The sounds heard by the crew of Apollo 10 were described at the time as “whistling” or as a “whooooo” sound. Other Apollo crews in lunar orbit heard similar sounds-one memorably described as a “woo-woo” sound by Apollo 11 Command Module Pilot Michael Collins.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Apollo 10 astronauts flew to the moon in a command module, and two of the crewmembers also took a ride in the lunar module, dropping down to less than ten miles above the moon’s surface. The whistling sound, it turned out, was nothing more than interference between the VHF radios on the two different vehicles.

Detailed explanation-4: -Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins, in a book published years later, said the noise was just interference between the lunar module and command module’s VHF radios, the Weather Network said.

Detailed explanation-5: -In its sonifications of the black hole in the M87 galaxy, which was first imaged in 2019, NASA created audio using X-ray, optical light and radio wave data from ground and space telescopes.