“Similar to how written descriptions are unique translations of visual images, sonifications also translate the visual images by encoding information, like color, brightness, star locations or water absorption signatures, as sounds,”

Similar to how written descriptions are unique translations of visual images, sonifications also translate the visual images by encoding information, like color, brightness, star locations or water absorption signatures, as sounds.

Senior education and outreach scientist at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Quyen Hart, on NASA turning data from the James Webb Space Telescope into sounds