Here's what Sun sounds like - Music of the sun recorded by scientists
Strictly speaking NASA has not recorded the "sound" of sun. They have captured a specific vibration in the Sun's coronal loops which vibrate transversely (as a guitar) and longitudinally (as a wind instrument).
- These vibrations are captured by videos and satellite images.
- These vibrations are then converted into sound vibrations and the frequency is sped up to be audible to human ears.
- The speeding up can be up to several days crunched into seconds.
If you listen carefully the first sound in the sounds released by NASA does sound OM-ish ( preceded by a car crash !!). We can't deny that. In the video it is shown to be associated with one of the solar coronal discharge. BUT, keep in mind
1. This has been sped up, may be a thousand times
2. These are visual vibrations converted into sound.
3. Coronal discharge is not the only phenomenon happening on Sun
4. There is also a constant 'woossh' sound from the sun which occurs due to the convection happening on Sun.
As a counter-argument to 2. we can always say that the sounds we hear, are also some form of vibration converted into audible thing. So Sun's vibration also should be accepted as sound. Agreed. But in that case, there can be a lot of things on Earth whose vibration we can turn into sound, and by changing frequency make it sound like something else.
Strictly speaking NASA has not recorded the "sound" of sun. They have captured a specific vibration in the Sun's coronal loops which vibrate transversely (as a guitar) and longitudinally (as a wind instrument).
- These vibrations are captured by videos and satellite images.
- These vibrations are then converted into sound vibrations and the frequency is sped up to be audible to human ears.
- The speeding up can be up to several days crunched into seconds.
If you listen carefully the first sound in the sounds released by NASA does sound OM-ish ( preceded by a car crash !!). We can't deny that. In the video it is shown to be associated with one of the solar coronal discharge. BUT, keep in mind
1. This has been sped up, may be a thousand times
2. These are visual vibrations converted into sound.
3. Coronal discharge is not the only phenomenon happening on Sun
4. There is also a constant 'woossh' sound from the sun which occurs due to the convection happening on Sun.
As a counter-argument to 2. we can always say that the sounds we hear, are also some form of vibration converted into audible thing. So Sun's vibration also should be accepted as sound. Agreed. But in that case, there can be a lot of things on Earth whose vibration we can turn into sound, and by changing frequency make it sound like something else.
