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Listen to These Photographs of Sparkling Galaxies

WIRED

Some include visible light, which is how astronomers are able to photograph them with space telescopes like Hubble. But the James Webb Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray Observatory peer at heavenly objects in infrared and x-ray wavelengths that are invisible to the human eye. That data is often translated into visible colors to produce spectacular space images. Now, a group of astronomers is making those images accessible to a wider audience that includes visually impaired people--by turning the data into almost musical sequences of sounds. "If you only make a visual of a Chandra image or another NASA image, you can be leaving people behind," says Kim Arcand, a visualization scientist who collaborates with a small, independent group of astronomers and musicians on a science and art project called SYSTEM Sounds.

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