{"667932":{"#nid":"667932","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Sonification makes astronomy more inclusive and helps scientists fine-tune celestial observations","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETechnically speaking, there is no noise in deep space. A lack of molecules means there is no medium through which sound waves can travel. Essentially, most of the universe is a giant, near-perfect vacuum.\u0026nbsp;But hot turbulent gas in stars produce internal and surface waves which can be picked up by telescopes. Space telescopes also measure wavelengths of light and send that data back to Earth.\u0026nbsp;Sonification allows the astronomical data transmitted by telescopes to then be turned into sound. Sonification is not only creating greater opportunities for scientific inclusion, but helping astronomers to fine-tune their celestial observations.\u0026nbsp;\u0022The auditory system is a fantastic pattern recognition device. We accomplish speech by listening to changes in a person\u0027s voice over time. We can use the same capabilities to listen for changes in a dataset,\u0022 says \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/sonify.psych.gatech.edu\/~walkerb\/\u0022\u003EBruce Walker\u003C\/a\u003E, professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/psychology.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Psychology\u003C\/a\u003E and the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ic.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Interactive Computing\u003C\/a\u003E, and director of Georgia Tech\u0027s \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/sonify.psych.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESonification Lab\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETechnically speaking, there is no noise in deep space. A lack of molecules means there is no medium through which sound waves can travel. Essentially, most of the universe is a giant, near-perfect vacuum.\u0026nbsp;But hot turbulent gas in stars produce internal and surface waves which can be picked up by telescopes. Space telescopes also measure wavelengths of light and send that data back to Earth.\u0026nbsp;Sonification allows the astronomical data transmitted by telescopes to then be turned into sound. Sonification is not only creating greater opportunities for scientific inclusion, but helping astronomers to fine-tune their celestial observations.\u0026nbsp;\u0022The auditory system is a fantastic pattern recognition device. We accomplish speech by listening to changes in a person\u0027s voice over time. We can use the same capabilities to listen for changes in a dataset,\u0022 says \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/sonify.psych.gatech.edu\/~walkerb\/\u0022\u003EBruce Walker\u003C\/a\u003E, professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/psychology.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Psychology\u003C\/a\u003E and the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ic.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Interactive Computing\u003C\/a\u003E, and director of Georgia Tech\u0027s \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/sonify.psych.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESonification Lab\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34434","created_gmt":"2023-05-30 16:12:25","changed_gmt":"2023-05-30 16:12:25","author":"Renay San Miguel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Australian Broadcasting Company ","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2023-05-23\/sound-data-sonification-future-astronomy-studying-universe\/102350408","dateline":{"date":"2023-05-22T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2023-05-22T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"443951","name":"School of Psychology"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"167710","name":"School of Psychology"},{"id":"166848","name":"School of Interactive Computing"},{"id":"1937","name":"Bruce Walker"},{"id":"175286","name":"georgia tech sonification lab"},{"id":"170772","name":"Sonification"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}