# Western Slope Skies - Listening to Astronomy

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Podcast: [Western Slope Skies](https://stenobird.com/podcast/western-slope-skies-60132)
Published: 2026-03-27T16:01:00+00:00
Episode link: https://www.kvnf.org/show/western-slope-skies/2026-03-27/western-slope-skies-listening-to-astronomy
Audio file: https://cpa.ds.npr.org/s752/audio/2026/03/westsky-032726.mp3
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## Resource

In astronomy, we rely heavily on visual information. Images from telescopes, graphs of light curves, plotted orbits, spectra and diagrams. Most of the ways we understand astronomy today are shown through these two-dimensional formats. It's almost always something we look at. But vision is only one way of interpreting information. From quantum physics to the largest structures in the universe, the underlying reality is governed by motion, frequency and structure.

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