Admin What sound does 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.
Does the Sun give off sound?
The surface of the Sun produces sound waves because the surface is convecting and this produces pressure waves that travel into the inner corona. But yes, the surface does produce sound waves, but they have very low wavelengths measures in hundreds of miles!
How does light make sound?
Light does not, except very indirectly, make sound. The two things are about as different as can be, despite both bearing similar tags of “vibration” and “wave” and “energy carrier”. High power laser radiation can cause electric breakdown in the air, the breakdown produces sound.
Why is Sun so loud?
The enormity of the sun’s surface paired with its capability of generating of tens of thousands of watts of sound energy per meter makes the sun astronomically loud.
Is the sun really loud?
The Sun is immensely loud. The surface generates thousands to tens of thousands of watts of sound power for every square meter. That’s something like 10x to 100x the power flux through the speakers at a rock concert, or out the front of a police siren.
Is light a sound?
Light can be considered to be made of waves as well as particles. Sound is only a wave. It does not show particle nature. Light waves are electromagnetic waves while sound waves are mechanical waves.
Is light also sound?
It is true that sound and light are alike only to the extent that they are both waves. They are inherently different on the basis that light is electromagnetic radiation. Because light does not have a medium, it can transmit through objects in a way that sound cannot.
Can we hear Sun?
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.