Every time NASA or the European Space Agency releases an audio clip from deep space, millions of listeners assume they are hearing actual sound captured by a microphone floating in the void. They are ...

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At the start of my career, I used to do acoustic testing in an anechoic chamber where sound is not reflected as it gets absorbed. But the quietness of these chambers always got me thinking of how ...

Space is mostly quiet. Data collected by telescopes is most often turned into silent charts, plots, and images. A “sonification” project led by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and NASA’s Universe of ...