Messier 51 (M51) is perhaps better known by its nickname of the Whirlpool Galaxy because its face-on orientation to Earth reveals its wound-up spiral arms. This gives telescopes here a view of another spiral galaxy similar to our Milky Way, whose structure we cannot observe directly from our position within it. The sonification tracks along a line emanating from the galaxy's core to the edge of the image and scanning clockwise. The light encountered by this line has been mapped to the notes of a melodic minor scale. The sequence represents X-ray data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory.

The bright core, which harbors a supermassive black hole, produces a constant low hum punctuated by short sounds from compact bright sources within the galaxy, including many stellar-sized black holes. 

Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/Wesleyan Univ./R.Kilgard et al; Sonification: NASA/CXC/SAO/Kimberly Arcand, SYSTEM Sounds (Matt Russo, Andrew Santaguida)

M51 X-ray Sonification

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ETHERE4L #04

pretty

SenSen - U-Turn

it feels like everything is going backwards ,
when actually ,
it's all moving forwards 🔊

feel it float right through you ;
feel it it SHINE ⚔️ right through you .

feel it 😌
become you 😃

☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆ 🪩

image sourced from ‏𖦹 are.na ‏꩜‏

"sounds rushing" is a track by dominic plaza . i edited it on virtual dj and by adding some spoken words a few years ago. this week , while playing on my sx3 , i synced into something i'd been intensely interested in recently .... pan flutes , panpipes , ancient thinking . sinking into moments like this make me feel seen and heard , so thank you ! this is everything :+)

(panpipes / ) sounds rushing

“A Kindness” is a short ambient suite tracing the residue of memory, soft gestures, and quiet absurdities. From the scent of wet earth to a lullaby lost mid-sentence, it leaves you in a stillness that lingers.

ETHERE4L #04

Ryohei Hosoya

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