by Sophie Kastner is a musical composer who translated the unlistenable into song, turning nuanced data emanating from the heart of our Milky Way into the notes of a dissonant symphony.
"It's like writing a fictional story that is largely based on real facts," she said in a statement.
Her piece, "Where Parallel Lines Converge," draws from one specific portrait of our home galaxy's central region, aptly known as the Galactic Center.
Physically viewing this image can be a little disorienting.
It's captured in a variety of light wavelengths — X-ray, infrared and optical — by several powerful deep space imagers — NASA's Chandra, Hubble and Spitzer telescopes.
As such, there are tons of random swirls and streaks representing stunning entities in the area, like bright bubbles of gas and luminous star explosions, thick hyphens of dust and glowing stellar nurseries.
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"It's like writing a fictional story that is largely based on real facts," she said in a statement.
Her piece, "Where Parallel Lines Converge," draws from one specific portrait of our home galaxy's central region, aptly known as the Galactic Center.
Physically viewing this image can be a little disorienting.
It's captured in a variety of light wavelengths — X-ray, infrared and optical — by several powerful deep space imagers — NASA's Chandra, Hubble and Spitzer telescopes.
As such, there are tons of random swirls and streaks representing stunning entities in the area, like bright bubbles of gas and luminous star explosions, thick hyphens of dust and glowing stellar nurseries.
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