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NASA has antecedently shared somefascinating sonifications , which take images of space and twist them into auditory experiences — both to allow people who are visually impaired to enjoy the wonders of space , and to ply a raw mode for everyone to experience distance image . Now , the agency has released a new solidifying of sonifications from some historic images take by the revered Chandra ecstasy - beam Observatory .
This calendar week mark the 25th anniversary of the first light images from Chandra . It may not be as noted as its other infinite scope cousins like Hubble and James Webb , but Chandra has been a lively creature in helping astronomers to peer into the universe in the X - ray wavelength . And during its time , it has also produce some beautiful and far-famed images .
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“ To mark the day of remembrance of this milestone , new sonifications of three images — including Cassiopeia A ( Cas A ) — are being released , ” NASA writes . “ Sonification is a mental process that translate astronomical datum into sound , interchangeable to how digital data point are more routinely turned into images . This translation process preserves the science of the data point from its original digital state but leave an substitute footpath to experiencing the datum . ”
The three fresh sonifications let in image ofCassiopeia A , a cloud of debris that is the end of a supernova . At its nub is the remnant of an exploded star , called a neutron virtuoso , and the sonifications begin at this central point and move outward , with X - ray data point from Chandra represented by pianoforte sound and infrared data from James Webb and the Spitzer Space Telescope represented by face and string instruments .
There ’s also 30 Doradus , known as theTarantula Nebula , which is know for its glittering , dreamy landscape painting and now has an fitly sparkling and delicate soundscape . The sculpted shapes in the nebula are the result of shock wave create by winds from massive stars , and red regions in the image are represent by downcast pitch while bloodless regions have wind sounds and bright principal get synthesizer notes .
And finally there ’s the galaxy NGC 6872 , a spiral galaxy with two stretch arms reaching out into space . This mental image is sonified in a clock - corresponding pattern , with sounds cross around from a central pointedness , which is the center of the galaxy . Here , the strait of X - electron beam are represented as air current - like phone that correspond to the highly hot gas that twirl around the astronomic center , while star formation in the spiral arms is heard as high - pitched tone .
Previous sonifications have include thesounds of a nebulaand ablack hole , as well as icon take up by theJames Webb Space Telescope .
