So the very first time we worked on the center of our Milky Way galaxy,

it just sort of blew my mind.

The very first listened through of this piece was incredible.

It's this rich field, about 400 light years across of the very core of our Milky Way galaxy.

When you hear it, there's this incredible crescendo over on the right side of the dataset.

And that crescendo with all of these little beeps and boops going on is essentially all of the area around the super massive

black hole at the very center of our Milky Way galaxy.

And it's incredible to be able to hear it because it feels so much more powerful to be able to hear that data versus just looking at it.

This is NASA's curious universe. Our universe is a wild and wonderful place. I'm Patty Boyd, and in this podcast,

NASA is your tour guide. As you might imagine, NASA scientists spend a lot of time looking at numbers.

From huge tables and spreadsheets to complicated diagrams, there's a lot of math involved.

But one of the coolest things about studying space is when those numbers turn into a beautiful piece of art.

You've probably seen vibrant images of our universe, maybe in a science textbook or on a t-shirt.

These photographs are often based on information collected by telescopes and instruments

in space.

With ever-improving technology, we can learn even more about our universe from these images

and figure out new and interesting ways to use the data we're collecting.

We can translate the information into things we can hear and even touch.

In this episode, we're going to look at how NASA scientists bring data to life in captivating and surprising ways.

Hubble data is used in a huge variety of ways and people are getting more imaginative

perhaps as the years go on.

That's Kenneth Carpenter.

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