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Sonification: NASA/CXC/SAO/K.Arcand, SYSTEM Sounds (M. Russo, A. Santaguida) More at: https://chandra.si.edu/photo/2026/son.... Shortened snippet. View full page for more details.

Sonification: NASA/CXC/SAO/K.Arcand, SYSTEM Sounds (M. Russo, A. Santaguida) More at: https://chandra.si.edu/photo/2026/son.... Shortened snippet. View full page for more details.

Uranus: Returning to the left to right scan, the sounds begin with a cello that traces the arcing ring — not as famous as Saturn’s but still prominent — around the ice giant Uranus. As you listen to data from the face of the planet, the notes .... Shortened snippet. View full page for more details.

On February 28, 2026, six planets will appear to line up in the night sky. This alignment happens when the planets’ orbits take them to the same side of the Sun. NASA’s Chandra is releasing new sonifications of three of these planets.... Shortened snippet. View full page for more details.

Saturn: The scan of Saturn begins on the right and moves to the left. As it encounters Saturn’s famous rings, seen in an optical image from the Cassini mission, we hear almost a siren effect whose frequency follows the arc of the rings. Once the .... Shortened snippet. View full page for more details.

In late February, people in the northern hemisphere can look up for a special sight: six planets will all be visible from clear and dark night skies. Since the planets in our Solar System travel around the Sun in same plane, known as the ecliptic,.... Shortened snippet. View full page for more details.

Jupiter Sonification: The sonification of Jupiter combines X-ray data from Chandra with an infrared image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. Woodwind sounds reveal Chandra’s X-ray data including emission from the planet’s auroras. More .... Shortened snippet. View full page for more details.

With NASA’s Chandra, astronomers found the first astrosphere around a Sun-like star. An astrosphere is a bubble of particles blown by winds from the star’s surface. Our Sun has a similar bubble, but this star’s bubble is a few billion years .... Shortened snippet. View full page for more details.