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🐱 👁️ 🎵 Experience the Cat’s Eye Nebula through sound! In this data sonification, information in the image is represented as music. A radar-like scan of the image emanates from the center point of the nebula and moves clockwise to produce pitch. Light that is further from the center is heard as higher pitches while brighter light is louder. X-rays from the Chandra X-ray Observatory are represented by a harsher sound, while the visible light data from Hubble sound smoother. Credits: NASA/CXC/SA

Listen to the sounds of the Carina Nebula! The tracks are not recording of sounds in space but the team at NASA converts the data to sound by composing music that tracks details present in the images whether it is stars, gas clouds shining in different wavelengths, or others. Sonification is part of NASA’s Universe of Learning program, created by scientists, musicians, and members of the blind and visually impaired community to help enhance the experience of these astronomy images and data for l

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