There’s been much fanfare around thefirst image and data releases from NASA’s next-gen James Webb Space Telescope.
On Wednesday, the agency gave space fans a new way toexperience Webb’s observationswith a series of soundscapes.
The gas and dust have drone-like tones.
The orange and red lower part of the image is melodic.
Points of bright light are higher in tone.
This sonification comes in two parts to represent the different infrared observations Webb made of the nebula.
The bright stars make distinct noises, like plucked piano strings.
It’s not just images the team of scientists and musicians turned into audio.
Those droplets represent water signatures in the atmosphere.
The Webb audio experiences are both otherworldly and familiar.
They show there are broader ways to explore the cosmos beyond what we can see with our eyes.