Ever wondered what the music of the spheres would sound like?
Hubble brings us cosmic sights, but these astronomical marvels can be experienced through sound when scientists assign pitch and volume to an image’s data.
Take this sonification of the star cluster Caldwell 73, for example. As the radar scans around in this sonification, the radius of the stars is mapped to pitch, so stars farther from the center are higher pitched. The entire image is converted to the sound of a choir, while the orange and red stars are represented by a marimba, and the blue stars are represented by a glockenspiel.
No sound can travel in space, but sonifications provide a new way of experiencing and conceptualizing data.
Happy #WorldMusicDay!
Sonification credits : NASA/ESA/G. Piotto; Processing : Gladys Kober; Sonification : SYSTEM Sounds (M. Russo, A. Santaguida)
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