{ "count": 16, "next": null, "previous": null, "results": [ { "id": 14639, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14639/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2024-07-26T16:00:00-04:00", "title": "Helio Big Year: How Sonifications Connect to Performance Art", "description": "The Sun can put on spectacular shows in the sky. From Earth, we watch the dance between the Sun and Moon during eclipses, see the mesmerizing motion of the aurora, witness a tapestry of colors during sunrise and sunset, and sometimes even spot the bright flashes of sprites. All of these unique occurrences have inspired performance art — from dance, to music, to theater, and beyond.In June 2024, the Heliophysics Big Year explores how various kinds of performance artists are moved by the Sun and its influence on Earth. || ", "hits": 82 }, { "id": 14353, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14353/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2023-05-19T09:55:00-04:00", "title": "Sonification of V838 Monocerotis Light Echo", "description": "This data sonification of the star V838 Monocerotis, or V838 Mon, shows two Hubble images taken almost seven months apart. A pulse of light from the central star illuminates clouds of dust and gas surrounding V838 Mon. This star is located about 20,000 light-years away, at the outer edge of our Milky Way Galaxy. In this sonification, scientists mapped brightness to pitch and volume, and the surrounding stars are pitched to musical notes. Sonification credits: SYSTEM Sounds (M. Russo, A. Santaguida)For more information about the Hubble Space Telescope and its images, visit https://nasa.gov/hubble. || ", "hits": 38 }, { "id": 14333, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14333/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2023-04-17T06:00:00-04:00", "title": "HARP Citizen Science Audified Data", "description": "Audio visualizer featuring audified data from NASA's THEMIS mission. Audified sound files provided by the HARP Citizen Science project. || ", "hits": 60 }, { "id": 14209, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14209/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2023-01-09T17:10:00-05:00", "title": "NASA’s Compton Mission Glimpses Supersized Neutron Stars", "description": "This simulation tracks the gravitational wave and density changes as two orbiting neutron stars crash together. Dark purple colors represent the lowest densities, while yellow-white shows the highest. An audible tone and a visual frequency scale (at left) track the steady rise in the frequency of gravitational waves as the neutron stars close. When the objects merge at 42 seconds, the gravitational waves suddenly jump to frequencies of thousands of hertz and bounce between two primary tones (quasiperiodic oscillations, or QPOs). The presence of these signals in such simulations led to the search and discovery of similar phenomena in the light emitted by short gamma-ray bursts.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and STAG Research Centre/Peter HammondComplete transcript available.Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Visual description:On a black background with a faint gray grid, two multicolored blobs representing merging neutron stars circle and close. The colors indicate density. Yellow-white indicates the highest densities, at the centers of the objects. The colors change to orange and red at their periphery, with purple colors representing matter torn from and swirling with the neutron stars as they orbit. The grid shrinks as the camera pulls back to capture a wider view of the merger. A pale orange display at left shows the changing frequency of the gravitational waves generated, which is also indicated by the rising tone. As the merger occurs, the screen shows a spinning yellow blob at center immersed in a large cloud of magneta and purple debris. || Merger_Simulation_Annotated_Still_2.jpg (1920x1080) [180.7 KB] || 14209_Hypermassive_QPO_Simulation_Zoom_YOUTUBE_1080.webm (1920x1080) [12.1 MB] || 14209_Hypermassive_QPO_Simulation_Zoom_YOUTUBE_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [129.3 MB] || 14209_Hypermassive_QPO_Simulation_Zoom_YOUTUBE_BEST_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [161.8 MB] || 14209_NS_Merger_QPO_SRT_Captions.en_US.srt [1.6 KB] || 14209_NS_Merger_QPO_SRT_Captions.en_US.vtt [1.6 KB] || 14209_Hypermassive_QPO_Simulation_Zoom_YOUTUBE_ProRes_1920x1080_2997.mov (1920x1080) [1.0 GB] || ", "hits": 267 }, { "id": 14260, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14260/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2022-12-22T09:55:00-05:00", "title": "Sonification of RS Puppis", "description": "RS Puppis is a glittering star 200 times larger than our Sun and wreathed with dust reflecting starlight. Located about 6,500 light-years away, this star rhythmically brightens and dims over a six-week cycle. In this sonification, scientists represent data in the image as sound for a new, festive way of experiencing RS Puppis. Pitch is assigned based on direction from the center; as the circle travels inward, light closer to the top is high pitched, and light closer to the bottom is lower. Light toward the left is heard more in the left speaker and light toward the right is heard more in the right speaker. Additionally, brightness in the image is mapped to louder volume. Sonification credits: SYSTEM Sounds (M. Russo, A. Santaguida)For more information about the Hubble Space Telescope and its images, visit https://nasa.gov/hubble. || ", "hits": 83 }, { "id": 14157, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14157/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2022-05-26T09:00:00-04:00", "title": "Sonification of NGC 1300", "description": "The majestic spiral galaxy NGC 1300’s arms hold blue clusters of young stars, pink clouds of star formation, and dark lanes of dust. To represent this image with sound, scientists assigned louder volume to brighter light. Light farther from the center is pitched higher as a counterclockwise radar scans across the galaxy. NGC 1300 resides nearly 70 million light-years away in the constellation Eridanus. Sonification credits: SYSTEM Sounds (M. Russo, A. Santaguida)For more information about the Hubble Space Telescope and its images, visit https://nasa.gov/hubble. || ", "hits": 79 }, { "id": 14156, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14156/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2022-05-16T09:00:00-04:00", "title": "Sonification of NGC 1569", "description": "Welcome to one of the most active galaxies in our cosmic neighborhood, NGC 1569. This starburst galaxy creates stars at a rate 100 times faster than in our own galaxy, the Milky Way! Scientists represented information in this Hubble image with sound to create a beautiful sonification with a bottom to top scan. Brighter light is higher pitched and louder. The three color channels used to process this image are each given their own pitch range, with red representing lower pitches, green in medium pitches, and blue in high pitches. Sonification credits: SYSTEM Sounds (M. Russo, A. Santaguida)For more information about the Hubble Space Telescope and its images, visit https://nasa.gov/hubble. || ", "hits": 44 }, { "id": 14155, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14155/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2022-05-11T09:00:00-04:00", "title": "Sonification of Hoag’s Object", "description": "Stretching over 100,000 light-years across, the galaxy dubbed Hoag’s Object is slightly larger than our own home galaxy, the Milky Way. The blue ring is dominated by clusters of young, massive stars, while the yellow nucleus consists of mostly older stars. In this sonification, a clockwise radar scan transforms data in the image into sound. Bright light is represented with louder volume, and light farther from the center is higher-pitched. Sonification credits: SYSTEM Sounds (M. Russo, A. Santaguida)For more information about the Hubble Space Telescope and its images, visit https://nasa.gov/hubble. || ", "hits": 301 }, { "id": 13999, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13999/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2021-11-24T09:55:00-05:00", "title": "Sonification of the Bubble Nebula", "description": "In this Hubble image, a super-hot, massive star is blowing an enormous bubble into space. Fittingly named the Bubble Nebula, this beautiful cosmic object is roughly seven light-years across and resides 7,100 light-years from Earth. Scanned from top to bottom, color is mapped to pitch in this sonification of the nebula. The bright blue of the bubble can be heard as higher pitches; the red and orange regions’ lower pitches are heard most clearly at the beginning on the left and in the top half of the bubble in the middle. Brightness controls the volume and stars are represented by chimes.Sonification credits: SYSTEM Sounds (M. Russo, A. Santaguida)For more information about the Hubble Space Telescope and its images, visit https://nasa.gov/hubble. || ", "hits": 246 }, { "id": 13998, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13998/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2021-11-16T09:55:00-05:00", "title": "Sonification of the Butterfly Nebula", "description": "This spectacular Hubble image of the Butterfly Nebula shows a colorful view of star death. The \"wings\" of the butterfly are regions of gas heated to more than 36,000° F (about 20,000° C) that are tearing across space at more than 600,000 miles an hour (966,000 kph)! Vertical position is mapped to pitch – meaning that light towards the top of the image is higher pitched. The nebula is played on strings and synthetic tones, while stars are represented by digital harp. Brightness controls the volume, and the tilted hourglass orientation of the nebula produces an overall rising motion, with the prominent iron-rich jet producing a quick rise near the center.Sonification credits: SYSTEM Sounds (M. Russo, A. Santaguida)For more information about the Hubble Space Telescope and its images, visit https://nasa.gov/hubble. || ", "hits": 134 }, { "id": 13997, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13997/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2021-11-05T09:55:00-04:00", "title": "Sonification of NGC 2392", "description": "About 5,000 light-years from Earth, the stunning nebula NGC 2392 formed after the demise of a star like our Sun. In this sonification, the image is scanned clockwise like a radar. The radius is mapped to pitch, so light farther from the center is higher pitched. The outline of the nebula’s shell can be heard in the rising and falling of pitch, punctuated by its spokes. Brightness controls the volume. Sonification credits: SYSTEM Sounds (M. Russo, A. Santaguida)For more information about the Hubble Space Telescope and its images, visit https://nasa.gov/hubble. || ", "hits": 117 }, { "id": 13954, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13954/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2021-10-06T04:00:00-04:00", "title": "With NASA Data, Researchers Find Standing Waves at Edge of Earth’s Magnetic Bubble", "description": "Earth sails the solar system in a ship of its own making: the magnetosphere, the magnetic field that envelops and protects our planet. The celestial sea we find ourselves in is filled with charged particles flowing from the Sun, known as the solar wind. Just as ocean waves follow the wind, scientists expected that waves traveling along the magnetosphere should ripple in the direction of the solar wind. But a new study reveals some waves do just the opposite.Studying these magnetospheric waves, which transport energy, helps scientists understand the complicated ways that solar activity plays out in the space around Earth. Changing conditions in space driven by the Sun are known as space weather. That weather can impact our technology from communications satellites in orbit to power lines on the ground. “Understanding the boundaries of any system is a key problem,” said Martin Archer, a space physicist at Imperial College London who led the new study, published today in Nature Communications. “That’s how stuff gets in: energy, momentum, matter.” || ", "hits": 199 }, { "id": 13893, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13893/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2021-08-03T09:55:00-04:00", "title": "Sonification of Hubble Ultra Deep Field (2014)", "description": "This sonification of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (2014) image plays a note for each galaxy when it emitted the light captured in this image. The farther away the galaxy is, the longer its light has traveled before reaching the Hubble Space Telescope. In just under a minute, we can hear back nearly 13 billion years to the farthest galaxies in that photo. The light we receive from those galaxies was emitted when the universe was only a few hundred million years old. Sonification credits: SYSTEM Sounds (M. Russo, A. Santaguida)For more information about the Hubble Space Telescope and its images, visit https://nasa.gov/hubble. || ", "hits": 103 }, { "id": 13786, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13786/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2020-12-23T09:00:00-05:00", "title": "Data Sonification: Caldwell 73", "description": "Located 40,000 light-years from Earth in the constellation Columba, this globular cluster is called Caldwell 73 or NGC 1851. A globular cluster is a spherical group of stars that are gravitationally bound to each other, with most of the stars concentrated at the cluster’s center. As the radar scans around in this sonification, the radius of the stars is mapped to pitch, so stars farther from the center are higher pitched. The entire image is converted to the sound of a choir, while the orange and red stars are represented by a marimba, and the blue stars are represented by a glockenspiel.Credit: SYSTEM Sounds (M. Russo, A. Santaguida)For more information about the Hubble Space Telescope and its images, visit https://nasa.gov/hubble. || ", "hits": 72 }, { "id": 13605, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13605/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2020-05-13T11:00:00-04:00", "title": "TESS Aids Breakthrough in Puzzling Stellar Flashes", "description": "Watch the pulsations of a Delta Scuti star! In this illustration, the star changes in brightness when internal sound waves at different frequencies cause parts of the star to expand and contract. In one pattern, the whole star expands and contracts, while in a second, opposite hemispheres swell and shrink out of sync. In reality, a single star exhibits many pulsation patterns that can tell astronomers about its age, composition and internal structure. The exact light variations astronomers observe also depend on how the star's spin axis angles toward us. Delta Scuti stars spin so rapidly they flatten into ovals, which jumbles these signals and makes them harder to decode. Now, thanks to NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, astronomers are deciphering some of them.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight CenterWatch this video on the NASA.gov Video YouTube channel. || Exterior_still.jpg (1920x1080) [460.3 KB] || 13605_Delta_Scuti_Pulsation_ProRes_1920x1080_2997.mov (1920x1080) [523.3 MB] || 13605_Delta_Scuti_Pulsation.mp4 (1920x1080) [36.1 MB] || 13605_Delta_Scuti_Pulsation.webm (1920x1080) [3.6 MB] || ", "hits": 68 }, { "id": 13061, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13061/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2019-03-04T11:50:00-05:00", "title": "Hubble Treasure Trove Sonification", "description": "Space becomes “sonified” in this visualization of a cluster of galaxies imaged by Hubble. Time flows left to right, and the frequency of sound changes from bottom to top, ranging from 30 to 1,000 hertz. Objects near the bottom of the image produce lower notes, while those near the top produce higher ones. Most of the visible specks are galaxies housing countless stars. A few individual stars shine brightly in the foreground. Stars and compact galaxies create short, clear tones, while sprawling spiral galaxies emit longer notes that change pitch. The higher density of galaxies near the center of the image — the heart of this galaxy cluster, known as RXC J0142.9+4438 — results in a swell of mid-range tones halfway through the video. Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys and Wide Field Camera 3 acquired this image on Aug. 13, 2018. Read more about it here.Credit: NASA/Hubble/SYSTEM Sounds (Matt Russo, Andrew Santaguida)Complete transcript available. || Hubble_Treasure_Aug._21_No_Logo.00450_print.jpg (1024x576) [57.8 KB] || Hubble_Treasure_Aug._21_No_Logo.00450_searchweb.png (320x180) [49.8 KB] || Hubble_Treasure_Aug._21_No_Logo.00450_thm.png (80x40) [3.9 KB] || Hubble_Treasure_Aug_21_No_Logo.mov (1920x1080) [26.4 MB] || Hubble_Treasure_Aug_21_No_Logo.mp4 (1920x1080) [40.5 MB] || Hubble_Treasure_Aug_21_No_Logo.webm (1920x1080) [4.1 MB] || Hubble_Treasure_SRT_Captions.en_US.srt [243 bytes] || Hubble_Treasure_SRT_Captions.en_US.vtt [241 bytes] || ", "hits": 136 } ] }