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Cosmic Queries – The Sound of Space with Kimberly Arcand

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The Auditory View of Chandra's Spacecraft

Astronomy is just numerical, right? So we're translating that into something we can see. And then from there, the pipeline is to sound. We essentially take all of those pixels that we get from that resulting image and we do a mathematical mapping by assigning different kinds of sounds. The whole picture, though, is seen all at once, whereas sound has a beginning, middle, and end.

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