Although sound cannot travel through space, there are creative ways we can convert data from the NASA Universe into sound. "For the Chandra X-ray Observatory and for other telescopes like NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, we’re taking observed data, such as the position, the brightness, the energy of, say, X-rays in Chandra’s case, and mapping that information to sound," said Kimberly Arcand, visual scientist with the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics