With well-defined spiral arms, the European Space Agency said it’s a prime target for astronomers studying the origin and structure of galactic spirals. The latest pictures are of the Phantom Galaxy, which is around 32m light years away and lies almost face-on to Earth.
Meanwhile, new awe-inspiring images from James Webb, the most powerful space observatory ever built, are being released. NASA also took the pressure waves from a black hole and recently translated them into a range that can be heard by humans, letting us hear what a black hole sounds like. “Our teams are committed to ensuring astronomy is accessible to all.” “Similar to how written descriptions are unique translations of visual images, sonifications also translate the visual images by encoding information, like colour, brightness, star locations or water absorption signatures, as sounds,” Hart said. Quyen Hart, a senior education and outreach scientist at the Space Telescope Science Institute, said the compositions provide a different way to experience the detailed information from these images. The translation gives an audible way to represent the differences between the two images, which were taken with different instruments from the James Webb Space Telescope. The notes change, becoming lower overall to reflect that mid-infrared includes longer wavelengths of light. The near-infrared light is represented by a higher range of frequencies at the beginning of the track. In the sonification of the Southern Ring Nebula, the colours in the two images were mapped to different pitches of sound. The result is a complex batch of sounds that change in overall tone as the sonification moves across the ‘cliffs’ in the image. Bright light in the image is louder, while lights that are closer to the top of the image create a higher-pitched sound. The sonification – or translation of data to sound – scans the image from left to right. Russo and his collaborator Andrew Santaguida mapped Webb’s data to sound, composing music to accurately represent details the team wants listeners to focus on.įor example, the Cosmic Cliffs were mapped into a vibrant symphony of sounds based on the different levels of light and detail in the image. The tracks are not actual sounds recorded in space. “Our goal is to make Webb’s images and data understandable through sound – helping listeners create their own mental images.” “Music taps into our emotional centres,” said Dr Matt Russo, musician and physics professor at the University of Toronto. Through this work, listeners can enjoy a complex soundscape of the Cosmic Cliffs, the contrasting tones of the Southern Ring Nebula and hear the data points of a gas giant. If seeing the stunning images from the James Webb Space Telescope isn’t enough, you can now listen to them too.Ī team of scientists, musicians and a member of the blind and visually impaired community have worked together to adapt Webb’s data into sound. James Webb images have been adapted into unique soundscapes, while new images of the Phantom Galaxy have been revealed.
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