Esta é uma história curta que eu quero desesperadamente ler essa história novamente, de William Gibson ou Bruce Sterling (80% de certeza que é um desses dois).
Há uma parte em que alguns dos trabalhadores em um ambiente espacial (mineração de asteróides?) São descritos como ouvindo sinais de estrelas ou algo parecido, como uma forma de entretenimento ou relaxamento.
Rainha da cigarra de Bruce Sterling. Também identificado como a resposta para História com pessoas chamadas "lagostas" que são soldadas em trajes espaciais por toda a vida? embora isso não tenha mencionado a escuta de estrelas.
É o mencionado acima Lagostas quem escuta as estrelas. A parte relevante da história é:
The Crowned Pawn was like a ship turned inside out. It centered around a core of massive magnetic engines, fed by drones from a chunk of reaction mass. Outside these engines was a skeletal metal framework where Lobsters clung like cysts or skimmed along on induced magnetic fields. There were cupolas here and there on the skeleton where the Lobsters hooked into fluidic computers or sheltered themselves from solar storms and ring-system electrofluxes.
They never ate. They never drank. Sex involved a clever cyber-stimulation through cranial plugs. Every five years or so they "molted" and had their skins scraped clean of the stinking accumulation of mutated bacteria that scummed them over in the stagnant warmth.
They knew no fear. Agoraphobia was a condition easily crushed with drugs. They were self-contained and anarchical. Their greatest pleasure was to sit along a girder and open their amplified senses to the depths of space, watching stars past the limits of ultraviolet and infrared, or staring into the flocculate crawling plaque of the surface of the sun, or just sitting and soaking in watts of solar energy through their skins while they listened with wired ears to the warbling of Van Allen belts and the musical tick of pulsars.
Talvez você esteja pensando em Estrela Vermelha, Órbita de Inverno que é escrito por William Gibson e Bruce Sterling. Ocorre em uma estação espacial soviética que, acredito, corresponde à descrição que você forneceu. Aqui está a sinopse da Wikipedia:
The story takes place on the Soviet space station Kosmograd ("Cosmic City"), which consists of a number of Salyuts linked together. The station has both civilian and military roles; the military portion is a base for the operation for two large particle beam weapons for shooting down ICBMs. The civilian side, once a hub for space exploration, is now reduced to a maintenance role for the engineers running the station. Most of the story takes place in one of the Salyuts that has been set aside as the "Museum of the Soviet Triumph in Space". Its caretaker is cosmonaut Colonel Yuri Vasilevich Korolev, the first man on Mars. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Star,_Winter_Orbit
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Possivelmente Beacon 23, por Hugh Howey? Aqui está o resumo da Goodreads:
For centuries, men and women have manned lighthouses to ensure the safe passage of ships. It is a lonely job, and a thankless one for the most part. Until something goes wrong. Until a ship is in distress. In the 23rd century, this job has moved into outer space. A network of beacons allows ships to travel across the Milky Way at many times the speed of light. These beacons are built to be robust. They never break down. They never fail. At least, they aren't supposed to.
Não consigo encontrar uma citação relevante, mas o personagem principal relaxa colocando sua cabeça contra algum tipo de farol baseado em ondas de gravidade. Ele acha que consegue alguma coisa com isso.
Provavelmente não é o que você está procurando, mas Contato por Carl Sagan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contact_(novel) tem um astrônomo (que não é exatamente o espaço), que ouve sinais das estrelas para "entretenimento ou relaxamento".