#NASA
NASA’s Chandra X-ray is celebrating 25 years of science. The team has turned the data captured from space telescopes from a visual image into a sonification.
The brighter the light from each element, the louder and higher pitched the sound. In the James Webb Space Telescope sonification, musical instruments have been assigned to each color. Low pitched strings represent red, and high strings represent white. Low brass instruments represent yellow and orange, high brass represents blue, and woodwinds represent green. In the Chandra X-ray visualization, the brightness of the electric blue X-ray cloud is mapped to notes on a modified piano. And in the Hubble optical visualization, small cymbals called crotales chime when the expanding circle sweeps over a distant star. All of these instruments are combined in a symphonic sonification of the composite visuals.
