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Digital Camera World
Digital Camera World
Hillary K. Grigonis

These impressive space photos come with…sound? NASA has turned photographs of galaxies and nebulae into songs in a newly released collection

A cosmic image rendered in red, white, and blue that represent the wonders of the universe that NASA explores.

NASA’s deep space images often feel like both science and art. But NASA’s latest images are art in more ways than one: they come with sound. NASA recently released a set of new images that are impressive on their own, but come accompanied by music created from scientific data.

NASA’s sonigications translate different data points from the photographs into different musical elements. The brightness of the image, for example, turns into volume, creating a crescendo at the brightest points of the photograph.

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