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[Tony Monaghan]

From the BBC

'Pipe organ' plays above the Sun

Immense coils of hot, electrified gas in the Sun's atmosphere behave like a musical instrument, scientists say. These "coronal loops" carry acoustic waves in much the same way that sound is carried through a pipe organ.
Solar explosions called micro-flares generate sound booms which are then propagated along the coronal loops.
"The effect is much like plucking a guitar string," Professor Robert von Fay-Siebenbuergen told BBC News at the National Astronomy Meeting in Preston.


More http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6574059.stm

[Pingu]

From the BBC

'Pipe organ' plays above the Sun

Immense coils of hot, electrified gas in the Sun's atmosphere behave like a musical instrument, scientists say. These "coronal loops" carry acoustic waves in much the same way that sound is carried through a pipe organ.
Solar explosions called micro-flares generate sound booms which are then propagated along the coronal loops.
"The effect is much like plucking a guitar string," Professor Robert von Fay-Siebenbuergen told BBC News at the National Astronomy Meeting in Preston.

More http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6574059.stm


A library of this would be good for playing hot jazz!!

[etLux]

It's just gas...

[efiebke]

It's just gas...


O. K. I'll get back to this comment in a second. But first, a comment on the "Sun's atmosphere behave like a musical instrument". Am I right or am I wrong in understanding the properties of space that things can't be heard "out there" because of its vacuum??? Sound doesn't travel through a vacuum, I thought. :confused: :confused: But it would be mighty cool to somehow record or even "sample" the sound generated by the Sun's flares.

Now back to the comment "It's just gas. . . "

I tell my loving wife that all of the time. . . . . :p