# @nasa on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/Ch7mN2AJThq
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/357084-nasa-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/4df858dd3e.jpg
- **Posted:** 2022-08-31T16:56:24.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** NASA (@NASA) — https://gondola.cc/NASA

## Caption

What if you could hear NASAWebb data?⁣
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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.⁣
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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 clangs from cymbals.⁣
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Brighter light in the image is louder. The vertical position of light also dictates the frequency of sound. For example, bright light near the top of the image sounds loud and high, but bright light near the middle is loud and lower pitched. Dimmer, dust-obscured areas that appear lower in the image are represented by lower frequencies and clearer, undistorted notes.⁣
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Credits: Image: NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI; Accessibility Production: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, and Kimberly Arcand (CXC/SAO), Matt Russo and Andrew Santaguida (SYSTEM Sounds), Quyen Hart (STScI), Claire Blome (STScI), and Christine Malec (consultant)⁣
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#SoundsOfScience #JWST #JamesWebbSpaceTelescope #Webb #Sonification #Audio #Space #Nebula #Science #NASA #Stars #Galaxies #Planets

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sonification, stars, jwst, webb, soundsofscience, jameswebbspacetelescope, science, nasa, galaxies, planets, space, audio, nebula

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