# @vox on YouTube

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://youtube.com/watch?v=H2NKvm6Po4s
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- **Posted:** 2025-11-14T19:00:30.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Vox (@vox) — https://gondola.cc/vox

## Caption

“In space, no one can hear you scream.” At least according to the movie Alien from 1979.

But there actually is a way to listen to space. Astronomers use things called  “sonifications,” where they translate data into sound. This visualization is a sonification made by scientists at NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory of the center of the Milky Way. The piano represents infrared light, the violin represents visible light, and the glockenspiel represents X-ray light. And scientists we spoke to say listening to things like this can sometimes be better than looking at images for noticing new phenomena in space. #sound #space #nasa #violin #piano #glockenspiel #unexplainable #podcast

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Watch the full video of space sounds from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory:
https://chandra.si.edu/sound/gcenter.html


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## Tags

violin, nasa, glockenspiel, unexplainable, space, sound, piano, podcast

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