Starship Asterisk*

Yes, the sonification link was more specific about how they mapped the image to sounds, and the x-ray/visible/composite differences were interesting. I'll bet it doesn't really matter at what angle the scanning line is at: vertical, horizontal, 45 degrees, or any other angle, probably sound equally...

Is there anything standardized about this or is it just whatever they decide they want it to be? I realize that it's mostly for fun and listening to it is interesting. I followed the link about sonification and they used different sounds for the Milky Way. Is this like when NASA converted the data ...

My favorite web page period. But hey! Are the different piches proportional to the different brightness of the rings or at are they arbitrarily chosen by the technicians... Big, big difference! I'm a musician and I'm dying to knw the answer. In the featured sonification , increasing brighter region...

Absolutely fantastic. I'm going to start playing much more of Russo's renditions. For those who can't figure out how to enjoy the spectacle, perhaps THIS link could mollify them... ... for now. Thank you Professor Russo. Also, forgot to mention, here is a video of the app in action , enjoy!

Absolutely fantastic. I'm going to start playing much more of Russo's renditions. For those who can't figure out how to enjoy the spectacle, perhaps THIS link could mollify them... ... for now. Thank you Professor Russo. Thanks HellCat! FYI, for the video you linked we used the notes of the harmoni...

Works fine for me in a quite stock Safari in Mac OS. Also works on my iPad in Safari, though there's some pops and spits in the sound--almost like old radio! Probably overloading the sound processing chip/software/memory. Rob Yes, there does seem to be a processing limitation on high speed for some...

Uhm, if you only see the stars and not the rings your Javascript might be disabled. (Javascript is different from Java update) In Chrome click the customize tab at the top right. Click settings. At the bottom click advanced. Privacy, scroll to Control settings. Click, and set Javascript to allowed....

The link for Matt Russo has more of these wonderful tunes that link astronomy with music. The song ‘Return to Earth’ by his band Rvnners is pretty cool, too. Thanks Case! We post all of our space music at system-sounds.com and you can stay in the loop on twitter @astromattrusso, got an exciting one...