For the first time, NASA released a sonification simultaneously with news results associated with two of its telescopes, the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) and the Chandra X-ray Observatory. The data cover the region near the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy. The black hole, known as Sagittarius A*, is barely seen in the lower right-hand of the visual image that contains X-ray data from IXPE (red-orange) and Chandra (purple). In the sonification of these data, the cursor begins at Sagittarius A* and moves out as a growing circle toward the center of the image. As it encounters IXPE data, the volume of the notes changes according to the brightness of the X-rays. The brighter the Chandra data, the higher the musical pitch and vice versa. When the cursor travels over a large patch of X-rays both from Chandra and IXPE in the center of the image, a rushing sound is heard. This region is where scientists find a “light echo,” a high-energy relic left behind from an eruption from Sagittarius A* about 200 years ago.

Sagittarius A* Light Echo Sonification

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Houston We Have a Podcast: Small Payloads, Big Science

On episode 336, three experts within the Human Physiology, Performance, Protection and Operations Laboratory (H-3PO) at NASA, explain the ins and outs of this integrated laboratory designed to support human spaceflight.

Houston We Have a Podcast: H-3PO

On episode 337, the CHAPEA crew checks in on their tenth month in a Mars simulated habitat, and a NASA scientist explains her role studying crew habitat design and how it supports behavioral health, team cohesion, and performance.

Houston We Have a Podcast: Mars Audio Log #10

In this episode, Teddy Tzanetos, project manager for the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter, tells us about what we’re still learning from Ingenuity’s final flight and how risk management can be used for opportunities.

Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 130: Ingenuity’s Final Flight: Lessons Learned

On episode 338, experts from NASA’s Stennis Space Center discuss the facilities that support RS-25 engine testing for the Space Launch System and future Artemis missions.

Houston We Have a Podcast: Certifying Artemis Rocket Engines

On episode 339, a payload developer and surgeon discuss testing a robotic surgery technology demonstration aboard the International Space Station.

Houston We Have a Podcast: Robotic Surgery in Space

In this episode, Jacob Bleacher, NASA’s chief exploration scientist, tells us about the science goals of the Artemis Lunar Terrain Vehicle and how NASA is collaborating with industry to explore more of the Moon’s surface than ever before

Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 131: The Artemis Lunar Terrain Vehicle

On episode 340, an engineer at the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory discusses how environmental effects help make spacewalk training more realistic in the 40-foot-deep pool.

Houston We Have a Podcast: NBL Environments

On episode 341, aerospace engineers discuss NASA’s Quesst mission and the X-59 aircraft designed to fly faster than the speed of sound and test the future of supersonic travel.

Houston We Have a Podcast: The Quesst for Low Sonic Booms

Voz: Hernando Marín
Grabación y Mezcla: Babilonia Recording Studio


Sobre la muerte sin exagerar, Wislawa Szymborska

No sabe encajar una broma, 
no sabe de estrellas, de puentes, 
de tejidos, de minas, de labranza, 
de construir barcos, ni de pastelería. 

Hablamos sobre el día de mañana 
y dice su última palabra 
sin venir nunca al caso. 

Ni siquiera sabe hacer 
las funciones propias de su oficio: 
ni cavar fosas, 
ni clavar ataúdes, 
ni limpiar los despojos que su paso deja. 

Ajetreada con tanto matar, 
lo hace a cualquier modo, 
sin método ni destreza. 
Como si se estrenara con cada uno de nosotros. 

De acuerdo, tiene éxitos
pero, ¡cuántos fracasos, 
cuántos golpes fallidos 
e intentonas estériles! 

A veces faltan fuerzas 
para fulminar a una mosca al vuelo. 
Y más de una oruga la deja atrás 
al arrastrarse en la carrera a más velocidad. 

Todos esos tubérculos, vainas, 
antenas, aletas y branquias, 
plumajes nupciales y pelambres de invierno 
demuestran serios retrasos 
en su penosa labor. 

La mala voluntad no basta, 
y nuestra ayuda a base de guerras y revueltas 
no le resulta por ahora suficiente. 

En los huevos laten corazones. 
Crecen los esqueletos de los recién nacidos. 
Las semillas se visten con sus primeras hojas 
y a veces también con árboles en el horizonte. 

Quien afirma que es todopoderosa 
es, él mismo, prueba viviente 
de que, de todopoderosa, nada. 

No existe vida, 
que, aun por un instante, 
no sea inmortal. 

La muerte 
siempre llega con ese instante de retraso. 

En vano golpea la aldaba 
en la puerta invisible. 
Lo ya vivido 
no se lo puede llevar.

SOBRE LA MUERTE SIN EXAGERAR, WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA

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