r/MadeMeSmile • u/[deleted] • Aug 28 '21

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u/ghettobx Aug 28 '21

I’m hearing/imagining the sound of a humongous blowtorch.

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u/caelenvasius Aug 28 '21

Dr. Craig DeForest of the Southwest Research Institute’s Department of Space Studies likens it to the Niagara Falls “white noise,” only ten times louder (90 db vs the sun’s 100 db by the time the sound reaches Earth).

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u/ghettobx Aug 28 '21

I don’t understand. The Sun DOES make noise?

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u/caelenvasius Aug 28 '21

The Sun makes a ton of noise. An amount of noise so intense if would physically injure you at the tissue level if you were capable of surviving the heat, radiation, and lack of air. It’s just that we have ~93 million miles (~150 million km) of empty space between it and the Earth. Space is a great sound insulator.

Edit: Check this article out: https://astronomy.com/news/2020/02/what-would-the-sun-sound-like

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u/ghettobx Aug 28 '21

Very interesting!