Saturday, October 3, 2009

What Does A Star Sound Like?

The Big Bang A supernova like this would sound like 10 octillion two-megaton nuclear bombs exploding. Nasa/CXC/M. Weiss

From Popular Science:

Observing a star up close (putting aside for a moment how you’d get there or withstand its heat) is probably like sitting beside an enormous silent fire. Sounds—which are simply pressure variations in a medium such as air or water—can’t propagate in the vacuum of space, so the roiling surface of a star would make an impression on the eyes, but not the ears.

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