Listen as starlight becomes an orchestra.
showcase the interplay between infrared light, space gas, and other interstellar materials to create gorgeous ambient soundscapes. Taken as a series, NASA’s “cosmic harmonies” provide new, awe-inspiring ways to view the universe.
“Because different telescopes can detect different types of light, each brings its own pieces of information to whatever is being observed,” NASA explained in its. “This is similar in some ways to how different notes of the musical scale can be played together to create harmonies that are impossible with single notes alone.” According to NASA, the collaboration was overseen by Chandra X-ray Center visualization scientist Kimberly Arcand, astrophysicist Matt Russo, and musician Andrew Santaguida.
NASA offers three videos with each sonification shown via a moving cursor, rendering the telescopes’ 2D images into something akin to written musical scores. An image depicting the two-star system, for example, is shown with a radar-esque tracker moving clockwise from a central point around the picture. As the cursor passes over Hubble’s visible light and Chandra’s X-ray images, the volume increases.
“The ribbon-like arcs captured by Hubble create a rising and falling melody that sounds similar to a set of singing bowls , while the Chandra data are rendered to sound more like a synthetic and windy purr,” explained NASA scientists.
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