The ALMA Music Box

The ALMA Music Box plays musical discs inscribed with information from ALMA’s observations of this dying star, based on images taken at 70 different radio frequencies. The Music Box, a collaboration between the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, PARTY New Yorkand Qosmo, plays 70 musical discs, each corresponding to a different radio frequency observation. The discs feature holes corresponding to points of intensity in the emission.

Credit:

ALMA (ESO/NOAJ/NRAO)/Keizo Kioku

Courtesy of 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa

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Publicatiedatum:27 oktober 2015 15:00
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