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Space produces some otherworldly sounds–black hole songs, Martian dust tornadoes, and meteorites crashing into the Red Planet to name a few. Now, NASA has released three new sonifications of images taken from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and other telescopes. The new sonifications highlight different celestial objects observed by NASA telescopes. What is sonification? Sonification translates data into sound.
2 million light-years away from earth in the constellation Pisces. Spiral galaxies like these typically have a rotating disc with spiral ‘arms’ that curve out from a dense central region. This sonification combines data taken with NASA’s James Webb and Hubble Space Telescopes and X-rays from Chandra. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dgle5maku8 CREDIT: NASA/CXC/SAO/K.Arcand, SYSTEM Sounds IC 443–The Jellyfish Nebula The third sonification trio IC 443, nicknamed the Jellyfish Nebula.
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