Audio Files

Listen to the Universe

• NASA is famous for beautiful space images, but did you know you can listen to them? Our universe is vast and mysterious, and many of us associate that expanse with imagery of stars and galaxies. Through listening to information about the universe translated into sound, people who are blind or low-vision can also share in those wonders. “Listen to the Universe,” a documentary for NASA’s free streaming platform NASA+, takes the audience behind the scenes with the team that creates NASA sonifications, translations of space data into sound. Galaxies, nebulae, planets and more take on new dimensions in these unique sound experiences. Listen to the Universe, audio only version.
  [listen to the audio]

A Universe of Notes

• This audio explanation of the electromagnetic spectrum makes an analogy between sound and light. Just as nature is full of sounds that humans can not hear, the universe is full of light with too little or too much energy for human eyes to detect. NASA's multiwavelength telescopes let us tune in to the whole range of electromagnetic signals from the universe. (Source: SAO's Cosmic Questions exhibit)
  [listen to the audio]

Chandra Podcasts in Audio Format

• Visit the podcast page to download audio-only versions of our monthly Chandra podcast. The podcast series discusses recent Chandra discoveries. [Chandra Podcasts]

Data Sonification: Sounds from Around the Milky Way

• By turning Chandra, Hubble, and Spitzer images into sounds, a new project allows users to listen to the center of the Milky Way and other objects.

Wakeup calls are a long-standing tradition of the NASA program. Each day during the mission, flight controllers in the Mission Control Center greeted the crew with an appropriate musical interlude:

STS-93 wakeup call, flight day 6 "A Little Traveling Music" - Barry Manilow

• wav (7.0 M)
• RealAudio (424 K)

STS-93 wakeup call, flight day 5 "The Sound of Silence" - Simon and Garfunkel

• wav (3.6 M)
• RealAudio (215 K)

STS-93 wakeup call, flight day 4 "Someday Soon" - Suzy Boguss

• wav (3.8 M)
• RealAudio (227 K)

STS-93 wakeup call, flight day 3 "Brave New Girls" - Teresa

• wav (3.7 M)
• RealAudio (227 K)

STS-93 wakeup call, flight day 2 "Beep Beep" - Louis Prima

• wav (3.2 M)
• RealAudio (192 K)