Additional Audio Resources
The following materials are accessible to people who are blind or visually impaired using a combination of Braille, tactile techniques, and descriptions in both large format text and audio formats, as well as a collection of 3D prints of cosmic objects.
Visual Descriptions (Podcasts)
Visual Descriptions (XML)
Narrated audio files of the visual descriptions of recent Chandra images released.
Data Sonifications: A Universe of Sound
Actual NASA multiwavelength data of objects in our Universe, such as exploding stars and stellar nurseries, that has been translated into sound-based representations.
Chandra X-ray Observatory podcasts
The most recent cutting-edge discoveries and updates from NASA’s Chandra mission in audio formats. New podcasts are produced approximately every 2-3 weeks.
A Universe of Notes
This audio explanation of the electromagnetic spectrum makes an analogy between sound and light.
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Additional support from NASA's Universe of Learning (UoL). UoL materials are based upon work supported by NASA under award number NNX16AC65A to the Space
Telescope Science Institute, working in partnership with Caltech/IPAC, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory.