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    "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5653/",
    "page_type": "Interactive",
    "title": "Sonification of Exoplanet Discoveries by Month",
    "description": "Listen to exoplanets! Explore all known exoplanets — planets discovered beyond our solar system — visualized in WorldWide Telescope across a 2D all-sky map and a 3D Milky Way galaxy where audio pitch corresponds to how fast a planet orbits around its host star.",
    "release_date": "2026-07-10T14:30:00-04:00",
    "update_date": "2026-07-10T14:30:25.131095-04:00",
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        "alt_text": "A screenshot from the interactive Exoplanet Sonification visualization. In the center of the screen, there is a mass of colorful dots overlaying a skewed image of a galaxy. The visualization's UI elements are also visible: a legend with a variety of colors representing different discovery types, a timeline, and a settings menu.",
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        "height": 899,
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    "main_credits": {
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                "name": "A. David Weigel",
                "employer": "U.S. Space & Rocket Center - INTUITIVE® Planetarium"
            }
        ]
    },
    "progress": "Complete",
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            "description": "Listen to exoplanets! Explore all known exoplanets — planets discovered beyond our solar system — visualized in WorldWide Telescope across a 2D all-sky map and a 3D Milky Way galaxy where audio pitch corresponds to how fast a planet orbits around its host star.",
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            "description": "**Please turn on audio and raise your volume for the best experience**. \r\n\r\nThis interactive is also available in full screen on the [U.S. Space and Rocket Center's website](https://projects.cosmicds.cfa.harvard.edu/exoplanet-sonification/).",
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            "description": "* **Sonify**: Press play to hear exoplanet discoveries unfold through time — each planet's orbital period maps to a guitar note. Higher-pitched notes correspond to shorter orbital periods (fast orbits close to their star); lower-pitched notes correspond to longer orbital periods (slow orbits farther out). Single-click plays from the current year; double-click (or when the timeline is at the end) restarts from 1992.\r\n * **Navigate**: Click & drag (or touch drag) to pan. Scroll wheel or pinch to zoom.\r\n * **Timeline**: Drag the year slider to show only exoplanets discovered up to that year. The slider also controls where play begins if you single-click it.\r\n * **Switch views**: Press \"View 3D Galaxy / View 2D Sky\" to toggle between all-sky imagery and a 3D Milky Way.\r\n * **Identify (mobile)**: Use the reticle button to enable the planet reticle. Pan the sky so an exoplanet enters the reticle ring to hear its tone and see its details. Tap the button again to dismiss it.\r\n * **Identify (desktop**): Hover over a dot to see its name, discovery method, and distance — and hear its orbital-period tone.\r\n * **Search**: Use the magnifying glass button to find a specific exoplanet by name and jump to it on the sky.\r\n * **Discovery Types**: Use the *discovery types* menu to show or hide planets by how they were found.\r\n * **Sky surveys (2D only)**: Open Crossfade Sky Survey from the menu to blend between optical and other wavelength views, then tap Change Sky Survey to pick a dataset.",
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        {
            "role": "Visualizer",
            "people": [
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                    "name": "A. David Weigel",
                    "employer": "U.S. Space & Rocket Center - INTUITIVE® Planetarium"
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            "role": "Programmer",
            "people": [
                {
                    "name": "A. David Weigel",
                    "employer": "U.S. Space & Rocket Center - INTUITIVE® Planetarium"
                },
                {
                    "name": "Jon Carifio",
                    "employer": "Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian"
                },
                {
                    "name": "Will Taylor",
                    "employer": "U.S. Space & Rocket Center - INTUITIVE® Planetarium / Alabama School of Cyber Technology and Engineering"
                }
            ]
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            "role": "Sonification",
            "people": [
                {
                    "name": "Alex Shepard",
                    "employer": "U.S. Space & Rocket Center - INTUITIVE® Planetarium"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "role": "Technical support",
            "people": [
                {
                    "name": "Ella Kaplan",
                    "employer": "ADNET Systems, Inc."
                }
            ]
        }
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    "nasa_science_categories": [
        "Planets & Moons",
        "Universe"
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        "Audio",
        "Exoplanet",
        "Interactive",
        "Open Source",
        "Sonification"
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