How loud would the Sun be if you could hear it?

How loud would the Sun be if you could hear it?

around 110 decibels
But if we could hear the constant roar, it’d be pretty loud, even from here. One heliophysicist crunched the numbers and estimates the noise would be around 110 decibels, or about the same volume as speakers at a rock concert.

What sound would the Sun make?

The Sun does indeed generate sound, in the form of pressure waves. These are produced by huge pockets of hot gas that rise from deep within the Sun, travelling at hundreds of thousands of miles per hour to eventually break through the solar surface.

What if the Sun made noise?

The sun would be absolutely deafening. And because the sun’s surface area is around 10,000 times larger than Earth: “Imagine 10,000 Earths covered in police sirens, all screaming,” he says. Of course, the Earth is around 92 million miles from the sun, so the sound would be somewhat attenuated by the time it got here.

What would the Sun sound like from Earth?

The Sun’s surface is a roiling soup of superheated plasma. If we could hear its motion as sound energy, the roar would be audible on Earth 92 million miles away. It’s dawn.

Can you hear the Sun in space?

We can’t hear the sun because sound waves can’t travel through the vacuum of space — they need an atmosphere, where they travel by creating changes in pressure. McIntosh and other scientists measured changes in the light waves that the sun emits and translated those changes into sound waves.

Can you hear the sun in space?

Why is the Sun screaming?

Coronal mass ejections are violent solar eruptions that carry massive amounts of electrically charged gas called plasma from the sun’s atmosphere. Once unleashed, these plasma clouds race away from the sun at up to a million miles per hour.

Can sound travel through space like it does through the atmosphere?

But let’s assume for a moment that sound can travel through space like it does through the atmosphere here on Earth. In this world, the sun would no longer be a silent ball of fire hanging in the sky. Instead, it would be a perpetual white-noise machine, blaring with the intensity of a rock concert at all hours of the day.

Why can’t we hear the Sun in space?

We can’t hear the sun because sound waves can’t travel through the vacuum of space — they need an atmosphere, where they travel by creating changes in pressure. But if we could hear the sun, it would be noisy, says Scott McIntosh of the National Center for Atmospheric Research. McIntosh…

How loud is the Sun’s Sound on Earth?

Of course, the Earth is around 92 million miles from the sun, so the sound would be somewhat attenuated by the time it got here. DeForest pegs the sun’s din on Earth at around 100 decibels, a bit quieter than the speakers at a rock concert. That’s during the day, of course.

How does the Sun produce sound waves?

McIntosh and other scientists measured changes in the light waves that the sun emits and translated those changes into sound waves. The light waves are a reflection of the giant waves of gas that travel inside the sun and burst to the sun’s surface. In the picture, you can see an ejection of material from the sun in the upper right corner.