Published 20:06 IST, January 4th 2021

NASA's new project can help to estimate what a supernova sounds like; Read more

NASA's new project can now tell what a supernova sounds like. It released 3 videos from its archive and translated different frequencies of light into sounds.

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Due to a new data sonification program at NASA, w earthly beings can get some sense of how universe sounds. NASA's Chandra X-ray center which has been imaging far away galaxies for 20 years w have come up with ir new project. y recently took three ims from ir archives of pictures and n translated different frequencies of light into different pitches of sound to show how some of universe's extreme phemens might sound. Read on. 

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Chandra X-ray Center's new initiative shows how universe might sound through data sonification

See this example of a video of crab nebula, which is a superva remnant powered by a windy neutron star. According to NASA's data sonification, X-ray light of blue and white in colour has been represented by brass instruments' sound while optical light, that is purple in colour, is depicted with help of string instruments' sound. Meanwhile, infrared light that is pink in colour is shown by woodwinds sound. When video is played, y can see that pitch of each of instrument family increases from bottom to top, where many tones are audible at same time. sound can be heard converging near to centre of nebula where a swirling pulsar is blasting gases and radiation in all directions. Check out this video. 

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NASA also posted two more videos, one being Bullet cluster while or being superva 1987A sound. Below is video of Bullet cluster that is located at 3.7 billion light-years from Earth. According to NASA, this collision between two clusters of galaxies showed direct evidence of presence of dark matter. It is believed that dark matter caused distant galaxies in two blue regions of im to appear larger and closer than y actually are, this is occurring due to a process called gravitational lensing. When this im data was sonified, dark matter regions were n indicated in lowest sound frequencies while X-ray light is represented in high frequencies. Listen to audio below. 

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last video is of a superva explosion called Superva 1987A. It was named according to year when its light first reached Earth from Mllanic cloud located 168,000 light-years away. This video is different from above two videos which panned from left to right, as this superva imry is documented in a time-lapse manner. A crosshair could be seen swooping from edge of superva's halo which n gradually transforms and shows superva's explosion evolution from 1999 and 2013. brighter halo is depicted in higher and louder pitches of sound. ring of gas can n be seen reaching its peak brightness when superva's shock wave ripples through it, which this creates loudest and highest pitches heard at end of video. 

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20:06 IST, January 4th 2021