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Data Sonification: Eta Carinae (Multiwavelength)
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- Video Title
- Data Sonification: Eta Carinae (Multiwavelength)
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- Data sonification from NASA missions provides a new method to enjoy an arrangement of cosmic objects. These data sonifications translate information collected by various NASA missions — such as the Chandra X-ray Observatory, Hubble Space Telescope, and Spitzer Space Telescope — into sound. Massive stars are known to have major outbursts. Eta Car, one of the most massive stars known, expelled about 10% of its mass in the Great Eruption, creating a small nebula, called the Homunculus Nebula, around it. Data captured in different wavelengths of light reveal different structures, each providing more information about the outbursts of Eta Car. This sonification translates the three-dimensional model of Eta Carinae as it spins around in the center. Data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope are played first, with optical light followed by ultraviolet light, before moving to emission from hydrogen atoms, and then finally X-rays from Chandra. Each type of light is layered into the one before it, until the last piece of the sonification becomes a chorus of light and sound. For more information, visit: https://chandra.si.edu/photo/2022/etacar/
- Video Duration
- 45 sec
- YouTube Keywords
- astronomy space telescope astrophysics science
- Data Source
- Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
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- cxcpub
- Uploaded
- 2022-05-02T13:33:38.000Z
- Creator
- Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
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- YouTube Videos
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- Science & Technology
- Topic
- Astronomy
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