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.
What does space sound like? Neil deGrasse Tyson and Matt Kirshen explore space sonification projects and Chandra x-ray data with astronomy visualization expert Kimberly Arcand. Hear what the supermassive black hole at the center of The Milky Way sounds like…
NOTE: StarTalk+ Patrons can listen to this entire episode commercial-free
Thanks to our Patrons Brittani Vega, Anish Abraham, Charlie Chapter Zhang, John McCormack, Eugene C Nickel Jr, and Marcus Ruzzon for supporting us this week.
Photo Credit: Hubble ESA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Subscribe to SiriusXM Podcasts+ on Apple Podcasts to listen to new episodes ad-free and a whole week early.