It's 2016 and we're in Prospect Park, Brooklyn.

A live orchestra and choir perform opera music while thousands of people press tiny cardboard

boxes to their faces.

This is the Hubble Cantada.

Yeah, so these virtual reality headsets are pretty jank, but the scenes the audience is

looking at through them are majestic.

It's a 360 degree view of some of the most stunning galaxies that astronomers have ever

captured.

Meanwhile, sweeping classical music that matches the images just envelops the audience.

Alright, well, uh, Hubble Cantada, uh, Jason, like, bring us in.

Okay, let's do it, you ready?

You're listening to Scientific Americans science quickly.

I'm Jason Drakeford, I'm an animator and video journalist.

And I'm Timmy Broderick, I'm a freelance journalist who covers disability and recent

intern at Siam.

This week we are taking over the feed and blasting off into space.

We're going to take you on a journey through the stars.

Welcome to part one of a three part fascination on how scientists and artists are turning space

into sound.

You've seen photographs from the Hubble and the James Webb Space Telescope, but now

get ready to hear them, including one brand new sonification that has never been publicly

released.

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