What if you could hear NASAWebb data?
There’s a new, immersive way to explore three of the first full-color infrared images and data from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope – through sound. Listeners can enter the complex soundscape of the Cosmic Cliffs in the Carina Nebula, explore the contrasting tones of two images that depict the Southern Ring Nebula, and identify the individual data points in a transmission spectrum of hot gas giant exoplanet WASP-96 b. To learn more and find all of these sonifications, go to NASAWebb’s link in bio.
In this video, the data of Webb’s “Cosmic Cliffs” in the Carina Nebula has been sonified, or translated to sound. The gas and dust in the blue portion of the image have windy, drone-like sounds, while a meandering melodic line represents the rise and fall of the “mountain range” portion. All stars are represented by a combination of pitches and processed piano notes, but the brightest stars with longer diffraction spikes also carry crashes and cla...
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