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Converting space images into audio can improve trust, accessibility among visually-impaired: Study
8 months, 4 weeks ago

Converting space images into audio can improve trust, accessibility among visually-impaired: Study

Deccan Chronicle  

New Delhi, Mar 26 Translating images captured by telescopes into sounds has been found to improve trust and access among visually-impaired persons, along with promoting awareness about accessibility, according to a new research in the US. Astronomical telescopes, such as NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and the James Webb Space Telescope, capture light coming from various cosmic sources like stars and …

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Cosmic melody: Astronomical data can be converted to music, revealing the universe like never before
1 year, 2 months ago

Cosmic melody: Astronomical data can be converted to music, revealing the universe like never before

Salon  

Christine Malec, who has been blind since birth, has always been a big astronomy buff, fascinated by major questions about the universe like what happens when a limit reaches infinity and whether things like space travel could one day become a reality. As a blind person, that’s an experience I hadn’t had.” Through astronomical sonification, scientists map complex astronomical structures …

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How sound is providing new clues about the Universe
1 year, 2 months ago

How sound is providing new clues about the Universe

BBC  

How sound is providing new clues about the Universe Getty Images Much of what we know about the Universe comes from the different types of light we can detect, but some astronomers are trying to listen as well as look Astronomy is often thought of as a visual science that produces stunning images of the cosmos. Other instruments detect black …

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What do mushrooms sound like? Hear the psychedelic boops, beeps and womps for yourself
1 year, 10 months ago

What do mushrooms sound like? Hear the psychedelic boops, beeps and womps for yourself

LA Times  

What does nature’s song sound like? “It demonstrates, in a very immediate way, how mushrooms are alive like we are alive.” To be clear, the mushrooms aren’t making the music themselves, or deliberately choosing which notes we hear. The mushroom’s central role in a hotly debated theory known as the “ Wood Wide Web ” — which argues that trees …

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NASA records sound from black hole 250 lightyears away and it's super eerie - Listen here
2 years, 4 months ago

NASA records sound from black hole 250 lightyears away and it's super eerie - Listen here

India TV News  

Highlights The black hole is around 250 lightyears away from Earth In a 34-second audio clip, one can relate it to be a mixture of spooky sounds The sound was produced through Data Sonification of a black hole at the Center of the Perseus Galaxy Black Hole: Ever heard a sound of a black hole, a celestial body that is …

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What Does a Supernova Sound Like? NASA's Sonification Video Has the Answers
3 years, 10 months ago

What Does a Supernova Sound Like? NASA's Sonification Video Has the Answers

News 18  

A mesmerising video has been released on the official Instagram account of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Hubble. In the video, we can hear the sonification of Supernova 1987A which was done using the observations made by the Hubble Space Telescope and NASA Chandra X-ray Observatory. Ty Lee, another commented, “That’s amazing.” Several space enthusiasts also had questions about …

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What does the universe sound like? This science-art project has the answers
4 years ago

What does the universe sound like? This science-art project has the answers

Live Mint  

Imagine the rings of Saturn as strings of a harp that you can strum to create music. Three years ago, a trio of astrophysicists and musicians started a science-art outreach project, SYSTEM Sounds, which converts majestic space images into music and sound. A close look at the project website explains that images captured by the Hubble telescope, for instance, were …

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NASA Treats Internet With Spooky 'Sound' of Interacting Galaxies in Space to Celebrate Halloween
4 years, 1 month ago

NASA Treats Internet With Spooky 'Sound' of Interacting Galaxies in Space to Celebrate Halloween

News 18  

On Halloween 2020, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration shared a scary ‘sound’ from space. Not only a scary sound but the interacting galaxies also create a creepy face — two orange coloured eyeballs with a blue coloured face outline. As per NASA Hubble, Systems sound created this based on the brightness which relates to the volume while the pitch …

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You Can Now Listen to Centre of Milky Way, 'Pillars of Creation' Thanks to Sonification of Cosmic Images
4 years, 3 months ago

You Can Now Listen to Centre of Milky Way, 'Pillars of Creation' Thanks to Sonification of Cosmic Images

News 18  

People can now ‘listen’ to the centre of the Milky Way as observed in X-ray, optical and infrared light, thanks to a new project which used sonification to turn astronomical images from Chandra and other telescopes into sound. By translating the inherently digital data captured by telescopes in space into images, astronomers create visual representations that would otherwise be invisible …

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