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Listen to the centre of the Milky Way with NASA Chandra’s sonification project – MusicTech

Hear the Pillars of Creation and supernova Cassiopeia A as NASA transforms data into sound

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NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has unveiled a new project that involves transforming data from astronomical images into audio using sonification. This particular project looks at or listens to the centre of the Milky Way galaxy, the Pillars of Creation and the Cassiopeia A supernova.
In the same way that astronomers translate digital data from telescopes into visual representations for us to see deep space, sonification uses the same data to create sounds. The translation of the data can be h…

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