For millennia, musicians have looked to the heavens for inspiration. Now a new collaboration is enabling actual data from NASA telescopes to be used as the basis for original music that can be played by humans. Since 2020, the “sonification” project at NASA’s Chandra X-ray Center has translated the digital data taken by telescopes into notes and sounds. This process allows […]
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General, Astrophysics, Chandra X-Ray Observatory, Galaxies, Marshall Space Flight Center, The Milky Way, The Universe
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November 15, 2023
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