Solar Music
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I spotted this right after piano practice this morning. The video is pretty short and still long enough (just like my practice haha). I like the idea, it’s quite innovative. Maybe they are on the way to finding out for sure why the corona is actually hotter than the surface.
From the University of Sheffield:
Musical sounds created by longitudinal vibrations within the Sun’s atmosphere, have been recorded and accurately studied for the first time by experts at the University of Sheffield, shedding light on the Sun’s magnetic atmosphere.
Using state-of-the-art mathematical theory combined with satellite observations, a team of solar physicists from the University have captured the music on tape and revealed the harmonious sounds are caused by the movement of giant magnetic loops in the solar corona – the outermost, mysterious, and least understood layer of the Sun’s atmosphere. Most importantly, the team studied how this sound is decaying, giving an unprecedented insight into the physics of the solar corona.
High-resolution images taken by a number of satellites show that the solar corona is filled with large banana-shaped magnetic structures known as coronal loops. It is thought that these giant magnetic loops, some of them over a few 100,000 km long, play a fundamental role in governing the physics of the corona and are responsible for huge atmospheric explosions that occur in the atmosphere, known as solar flares.
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It is my first time to hear solar music.
So is that the true sound if you could hear sound in space? I have all I can do to do basic math let alone put it to sound to make music, That is so cool