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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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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