NASA James Webb Space Telescope Images Turned Into Sound
NASA released pictures of the Carina Nebula by the James Webb Space Telescope in July 2022, which mesmerized the world.
Now the breathtaking images of those nebulae taken by James Webb have been turned into music (sound) through data sonification technology.
Three sonifications of images from the James Webb Telescope data release have now been made available to the public - the Carina Nebula, the Southern Ring Nebula and the exoplanet WASP-96b.
Audio emanating from the Carina Nebula has different pitches depending on the brightness of its stars and gaseous fields.
The image has a loud sound in bright light. According to NASA, light with longer wavelengths and lower frequencies has a lower pitch.
Sonification is NASA's way of making James Webb Space Telescope science accessible to visually impaired enthusiasts as part of the Universe of Learning project.
The Southern Ring Nebula, located 2000 light-years away, was photographed by James Webb in two different wavelengths of light—near-infrared and mid-infrared—and both have been converted into sound.
James Webb was the first to detect the presence of water in the atmosphere of the exoplanet WASP-96b, located 1,150 light-years away. Now NASA has released a sound of this exoplanet image.
The audio also records the clearest evidence of water in the exoplanet's atmosphere, represented by four falling water droplets.
Earlier, NASA released the sound of a massive black hole at the center of the Perseus galaxy cluster, which is about 250 million light-years away from us.
Earlier, NASA released the sound of a massive black hole at the center of the Perseus galaxy cluster, which is about 250 million light-years away from us.