SYSTEM Sounds

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Letting the music of the cosmos be heard , Andrew Santaguida,

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    16 Nov 2021

    New image sonification of the Butterfly nebula for !

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  2. Retweeted
    24 hours ago

    There is so much that we don’t understand about ourselves; our minds, our planet, our solar system. When I first read about Sagittarius A*, the massive black hole that sits in the center of our galaxy, it felt symbolic we seek to understand about ourselves, yet fail to grasp..

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    22 hours ago

    Science is for everyone, so it's really important that it is accessible. HT to and the NASA visualisation/sonification team for making 3D printable tactile images, and soundscapes, of ! You can find them at:

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  4. May 12

    This was done with , more info:

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  5. May 12

    You can hear the 3 bright regions at 1, 5, 9 plus dimmer regions at larger radius (super low, use good speakers). Audio is binaural and will move around your head on headphones.

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  6. May 12

    We made this to help blind people experience the groundbreaking image. It's a radar-like scan, clockwise from 12. Brightness controls volume. Material closer to the event horizon moves faster -> mapped to higher pitch.

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  7. May 12

    Sonification of the 1st image of Sagittarius A*, the Milky Way's supermassive black hole!

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  8. May 11

    As a bonus, you can spot (and hear) a much more distant ring galaxy within the ring.

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  9. May 11

    Core is older redder stars, ring is younger bluer stars. Most ring galaxies are irregular and are formed when another galaxy passes through, triggering an outwards-moving ring of star formation. But there's no sign of a second galaxy that could have been the culprit here.

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  10. May 11

    Brightness is mapped to volume, radius is mapped to pitch. Star clusters within the ring have heavy reverb, background galaxies are dry sounds.

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  11. May 11

    Our latest image sonification with ! Hoag's object is an unusually symmetrical ring galaxy and we don't know why or how it formed!

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    Galaxies are pretty to look at, but they can also be pretty to listen to – and scientifically valuable! In this sonification of Hoag's Object, bright light is represented as louder volume, and light farther from the center is higher:
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  12. May 11

    A new video on our sonification project with for STEM for All. You can vote for us all week :)

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  13. May 7

    It's been an intensely fun and rewarding 5 years, thanks for all the support! Here's the TRAPPIST-1 story that started it all:

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  14. May 7

    Woot! Almost 5 years to the day we first appeared in , we're back with our black hole sound!

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    May 4

    = telescope teamwork! In this new sonification, of the black hole in galaxy M87, multiple observations are represented as sound: Hubble (middle), X-rays from (top), and radio data from Atacama Large Millimeter Array (bottom):

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  16. May 4

    Other (non-sound) density fluctuations in the image are also sonified with this technique but the real waves are there, strongest at 2 and 10 o'clock. The waves are triggered by a central BH and propagate out. The radar scan lets you hear the waves along all directions.

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  17. May 4

    This one's special. We extracted the actual sound waves that are visible in this image and re-synthesized them so you can hear them.

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    New sonifications of well-known black holes have been released for ⚫! #1 The Perseus galaxy cluster — famous for sound waves detected around its black hole by Chandra, some 57 octaves below middle C. And... (1/2)
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  18. May 2

    Let us know what you'd like to learn next!

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  19. May 2

    We have loads of fun doing sonification with and now it's your turn. We'd love to hear what you create.

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  20. May 2

    Part 1 shows you how we converted lunar impact data into music and Part 2 adds more powerful techniques that open up endless creative doors. Part 1 is also on Youtube

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  21. May 2

    Learn how to convert data into music with python! New tutorial series available here:

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