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  1. Stephan's Quintet: A Multi-wavelength Exploration

    Sonification | Videos
    This visualization explores the galaxy group Stephan's Quintet by using observations in visible, infrared, and X-ray light. The sequence contrasts images from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, Spitzer...
    Four galaxies appear close to each other in the sky: two in the middle, one toward the top, and one to the upper left. The galaxies appear to be touching. The galaxies are large relative to the hundreds of much smaller (more distant) galaxies in the background. All four galaxies have bright white cores and have streaks of blue and red. Some of the galaxies are peppered with white dust-like specks. Each galaxy is unique in size, shape, structure, and exact coloring. Scattered across the image, in front of the galaxies, are a number of foreground stars with diffraction spikes: bright white points, each with eight bright lines radiating out from the center.

  2. NASA's Space Jam

    Activities
    Use code to create a solar system that really rocks! Have a blast learning about music, astronomy, and coding all at once! In these activities, you'll program planets to make music that is out of...
    NASA's Space Jam logo shows an artist-drawn hand placed on a record decorated with binary code, stars, and abstract shapes in purple, black, and peach.

  3. Sonifications of Webb's Images of the Southern Ring Nebula

    Audio | Sonification
    NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope uncovered two views of the Southern Ring Nebula – in near-infrared light (at left) and mid-infrared light (at right) – and each has been adapted to sound....
    Video still frame showing a glowing vertical line as it sweeps across near-infrared and mid-infrared images that have been sonified.

  4. Sonifications of Webb's Image of the Cosmic Cliffs in the Carina Nebula

    Audio | Sonification
    There’s an immersive way to explore some of the first full-color infrared images and data from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope – through sound. Listeners can enter the complex soundscape...
    Video still frame showing a glowing vertical line as it sweeps across a near-infrared image that has been sonified.

  5. Sonification of Webb's Transmission Spectrum of Exoplanet WASP-96 b

    Audio | Sonification
    NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope observed the atmospheric characteristics of the hot gas giant exoplanet WASP-96 b – which contains clear signatures of water – and the resulting transmission...
    Video still frame showing glowing vertical line as it sweeps across a transmission spectrum that has been sonified.

  6. A Universe of Sound

    Sonification
    Every sound begins with a vibration. When those vibrations travel through the air, they can enter the human eardrum where they are eventually turned into electrical signals that our brain interprets as...
    A Universe of Sound website banner

  7. Touchable Universe in a Box

    Activities | Audio | Poster
    Whether we are feeling the warmth from our closest star, the Sun, during the day, or learning about the majestic array of planets, stars, and galaxies in the greater universe, the sky connects us all....
    Five plastic objects in a box

  8. Braille/Tactile Posters and Cards

    Poster
    Celestial objects as they appear in visible-light telescopes and different spectral regions that are invisible to the naked eye. These posters use a combination of Braille and large-format traditional...
    In the left picture, a volcano erupts and spews ash, dust and gas into the air. In the right picture, energetic eruptions are powered by jets of high energy particles as material falls into a black hole.

  9. Audio Files

    Audio
    Created for another way to experience the universe, these audio files provide audio descriptions of visuals.  Audio Files available at this website include: Podcasts: Visual Descriptions - Narrated...

  10. Mini Stars Kits

    Activities
    Our Milky Way galaxy contains several hundred billion stars of all ages, sizes, and masses – and there are billions of galaxies in the universe. One of the central quests of astronomy is to understand...
    3D print of Eta Carinae

  11. Tactile Images: 30 Doradus Set

    Activities
    Bring the wonders of the universe to everyone, regardless of their visual ability. A library of many Hubble Space Telescope images has been designed to be downloaded and printed on microcapsule paper,...

  12. Tactile Images: Galaxies and Universe Images

    Activities
    Bring the wonders of the universe to everyone, regardless of their visual ability. A library of many Hubble Space Telescope images has been designed to be downloaded and printed on microcapsule paper,...

  13. Tactile Images: Life and Death of Stars Images

    Activities
    Bring the wonders of the universe to everyone, regardless of their visual ability. A library of many Hubble Space Telescope images has been designed to be downloaded and printed on microcapsule paper,...

  14. Tactile Images: Solar System Images

    Activities
    Bring the wonders of the universe to everyone, regardless of their visual ability. A library of many Hubble Space Telescope images has been designed to be downloaded and printed on microcapsule paper,...

  15. 3D Printing the X-ray Universe

    3D Object | Activities
    Despite our limited abilities to travel to distant objects in outer space, astronomers, computer scientists, and others are developing techniques that nudge astronomy visualization forward from two-dimensional...
    Illustration of hand on left placing a star in hand on right