What Does It Sound Like When The Sun Shines? It Appears To Be Really Noisy

Our whole planet, not to mention the rest of the Solar System, is heated and illuminated by the Sun, which is effectively a massive nuclear fusion event.

In addition to producing enormous amounts of heat and light, it also produces a sizable quantity of sound. But since space is a vacuum and cannot convey vibrations due to the absence of particles, we are unable to hear it.

Leading heliophysics Craig DeForest from the Southwest Research Institute's Department of Space Studies responded to a query on Reddit in 2015 on the volume of the Sun if sound could potentially travel across space as it does through Earth's atmosphere.

He said that, according to certain estimations, the Sun might theoretically emit a noise of about 100 decibels, which is comparable to being close to a speaker at a loud rock concert or crowded nightclub. When you consider that the Sun is 150 million kilometers (about 93,000,000 miles) from us that is fairly amazing. He said, "The Sun is really loud. That sound cannot travel over space is a good thing, right?

He said, "Thanks to a variety of scientific instruments, like the Michelson Doppler Imager (MDI), mounted on the SOHO spacecraft, orbiting the Sun 1.6 million kilometers (1 million miles) from Earth, we have some idea of the quality of sound."

The sound waves are often at frequencies that are far too low for the human ear to hear. This is because the sound waves are so deep. Additionally, it is not a single tone but rather an intricate pattern of acoustic waves that resembles a bell.

Scientists have to accelerate sounds by tens of thousands of times, condensing weeks' worth of vibrations into a few seconds, in order to make them perceptible to human senses. As a result, the output you hear is highly filtered and tuned. This procedure produces a low, pulsating hum that is both scary and yet relaxing.

"The actual unfiltered sound is far more cacophonous, and to the ear would sound less like a resonant sound and more like noise," Dr. DeForest said in the Reddit post. The Sun sonification audio snippets suggest that Earth is still the Solar System's best-sounding planet. But for the love of God, don't allow any experimental electronic musicians to get their hands on this audio.

Internet users seem to think that the Sun's hue has altered during the past several decades. Some highly perplexed Twitter users claimed to believe that the Sun was formerly yellow and is now white in a thread. One Twitter user said, "I'm just telling a person in their 20s that the sun used to be yellow when I was a child and he's laughing." The Teletubbies were the last golden sun he had ever seen. The sun is visible right now. What's the weather like where you are?

The concept is not brand-new and has long been the focus of conspiracies. "In the past, the Sun was yellow. Okay? The Sun has lost its golden hue. In 2017, author and director Jay Weidner allegedly claimed, "it's white today. Elites spray chemtrails to block out the sun like Mr. Burns. And it used to be yellow; I can tell you since I'm old enough. And anyone my age can confirm that the Sun was unmistakably yellow.